Anamorphic lenses have been around for a long time and many people just absolutely love them and their wide-screen aspect ratio for making movies – however, they don’t fit on the Canon mount without some help.

What is an anamorphic lens anyway? (I didn’t know either LOL!) Our friends at wikipedia have a definition but just think of a really really wide-screen movie and imagine that it won’t fit in the standard aspect ratio of a Canon EOS 5D Mark II (reviews). So an anamorphic lens takes the wide field of view and squishes it so it will fit in the current sensor size and then you use software (or project it with a reversing lens) to uncompress the image back out to its wide format.

Click blog.planet5d.com for the whole story.