How to Use anamorphic in a Sentence

anamorphic

adjective
  • The transfer isn't anamorphic, and the audio is compressed Dolby 2.0.
    Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2017
  • Frank, who in the past has used a four-by-five camera, shot the book using an anamorphic lens designed for filmmaking.
    Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Nothing will improve your drone footage as much as this anamorphic lens from Moment.
    Scott Gilbertson, Wired, 29 Nov. 2020
  • Yes, anamorphic gives you more space left and right, helping to arrange the actors, telling more in one shot without editing too much.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The entire weirdness of the GT’s form—the visual weight of the bodywork over the wheel arches, for example—is the product of the anamorphic stretching of the coupe form in the vertical.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The exact same movie as designed, just captured with anamorphic lenses.
    Simon Abrams, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Durald Arkapaw used anamorphic lenses for a wider view.
    Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2023
  • To fix that, Moment has reduced the weight of its existing anamorphic lens by changing the housing from metal to plastic.
    Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 9 July 2019
  • One instance: How Hirschbiegel shoots social setting – the church, the courtroom, Clara and Andreas’ home – using anamorphic lens.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Montpellier shot in 70mm digital using large, anamorphic lenses to give the film an epic feel.
    Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Nightmare has its own look and a different aspect ratio and anamorphic lenses.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2017
  • It was shot with anamorphic lens and boasts a glossy cinematography, as well as high production values.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
  • McCarthy’s 64 is a line drawing of two anamorphic baseball figures coupling.
    Darryl Ratcliff, Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Steve Pauley makes stone sculptures whose anamorphic engravings can be discerned only when light is cast on them to reflect the images on adjacent surfaces.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
  • Looked at from a certain angle—like an anamorphic skull—this essay is concerned with literary criticism.
    Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The production shot the show in an anamorphic format across six different countries, sometimes in the snow, sometimes on open water, sometimes under water.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 28 June 2021
  • The new version also boosts multi-track audio support for Apple devices and iPhone-compatible anamorphic video at full size.
    Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2008
  • The camera accommodates a range of lenses, including anamorphic and spherical, Super 35 and large format, and has a selection of accessories and new workflow apps.
    Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2022
  • Shooting on 35mm with anamorphic lenses, the director makes thorough use of the timeless rural landscapes his story is set in – particularly during a brutal attack on a band of Roma.
    Will Tizard, Variety, 5 Nov. 2021
  • This kind of direction-dependent, or anamorphic, demagnification forms the basis of our high-NA system.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2023
  • The optics manufacturer Carl Zeiss has made a herculean effort to design and manufacture an anamorphic lens with the specifications required for our new machine.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2023
  • The answer lies in Pritchard’s clever use of anamorphic camouflage, combined with dual—and seemingly incompatible—perspectives.
    Susana Martinez-Conde, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2022
  • This exhibit includes paradoxical 3-D images and anamorphic distortions (check out those reflective cylinders revealing...you’ll have to see for yourself).
    Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2012
  • The director also expresses this complicity, this complementarity, through his choice of anamorphic scope.
    Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 9 July 2022
  • In this case, anamorphic lenses give dimensionality to faces, particularly Leatherface’s.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The head is distorted and elongated, almost anamorphic and androgynous, simultaneously ancient and somewhat extraterrestrial.
    Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 19 May 2021

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