Sirui Anamorphic Lens 1,33x 50mm F1.8 (Sony E)

Sirui Anamorphic Lens 1.33x 50mm F1.8 (Sony E)

The Sirui 1.33x 50mm anamorphic lens is an interesting product in many ways. A ready-made solution for anamorphic shooting, directly available with Sony E, MFT and Fuji X mounts and very attractively priced.

Like Sirui, the mechanical quality is very good and based on initial tests, the image quality is also great. Sirui is better known for its tripods, but has been making optics such as additional lenses for smartphones for several years. Now it's the turn of a true anamorphic lens. In a nutshell, this means that the lens flattens the image horizontally to contain a 33% larger image area. In post-processing, the 16:9 video image recorded by the camera is expanded to a magnificent 2.4:1 aspect ratio. The end result is very cinematic and characteristic of this technology without cropping the video image.

Previously, these types of lenses have been very expensive, designed for use by large film studios. Another option has been to use adapters and regular lenses, but these also have the problem of being expensive or of poor quality and more difficult to use.

The lens is compatible with APS-C sensor size cameras such as the A6500, but works in crop mode with, for example, the Sony A7 III.

Specifications:

Compatibility: Sony E (APS-C size drawing circle)
Manual focus
Focal length: 50mm
Aperture: F1.8 (min F16)
Filter thread: 67mm
Closest focusing distance: 85cm
Construction: 11 elements in 8 groups, 10 diaphragm blades
Size: 68.2 x 106.6mm
Weight: 560g