
The original upload seems to have given YouTube a bad case of wind. Here's a 1280 x 720 code of the same clip. Quick test of Century Optics 16:9 anamorphic adaptor on SI2K with CP Ultra T* 25mm T1.3 lens at T16. Image requires some sharpening to compensate for optical losses. The adaptor was originally engineered for the Sony DSR PD150, a standard definition camera to compensate for sharpness losses due to cropping the 4:3 sensor for 16:9. In combination with the native 16:9 frame of the SI2K, a post-production squeeze of 75% or thereabouts reproduces near to a cinemascope frame by following a similar ideal to bring the cropped pixel rows top and bottom back into the image. What the client has asked for the client may have. A 16:9 Panasonic anamorphic adaptor has been deliberately used with a SI2K previously for the "look" on an indie short which may have promted this specific request. As for the objective of recovering the lost pixel rows top and bottom when the normal sensor image is cropped for a cinemascope style frame, I have my doubts. The adaptor is not engineered for HD vision. I don't know if the use of a prosumer anamorphic adaptor will confer a meaningful recovery of detail through greater vertical pixel count, versus the loss of detail through the extra optical path, some barrel distortion, bad chroma separation towards the side edges and losses through digital processing and rescaling.. Things might improve with added ND to enable to lens aperture to be <b>...</b>
SI2K
ANAMORPHIC
CENTURY OPTICS 16:9
CP ULTRA T* 25mm
2/3 SENSOR