Great Joy’s take on an affordable anamorphic lens is still technically in its crowdfunding phase, but it’s already garnered more than $367,000 of support out of thin air. Can the $1,400 anamorphic lens really get the look?
This year was shaping up to be the Year of the Cloud, especially with what Atomos, Frame.io, and Blackmagic Design have been bringing to the market. But that could all be changing as affordable anamorphic lenses are popping up left and right.
Great Joy, a small lens company, had already put out a solid option for filmmakers—the 60mm T2.9 1.33x Full-Frame Anamorphic.
But now, the China-based company has revealed another lens for filmmakers to get that sweet sweet Hollywood look, a 50mm T2.9 1.8x Anamorphic.
Its most prominent test pilots have already released a ton of incredible beta footage—the lens delivers big-picture quality, far beyond anything we’ve seen in its price range. If you love to shoot anamorphic, this is definitely a lens you should look at.
And we’re going to do just that. Here’s everything we know about this new lens.
Author: Emma Garofalo
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
