How to Use anamorphic in a Sentence

anamorphic

adjective
  • This is known as anamorphic imagery.
    — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 14 May 2026
  • Rev was meant to shoot on 35mm film using anamorphic lenses.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Nothing will improve your drone footage as much as this anamorphic lens from Moment.
    — Scott Gilbertson, Wired, 29 Nov. 2020
  • The exact same movie as designed, just captured with anamorphic lenses.
    — Simon Abrams, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Drew Daniels shot it in 35mm with anamorphic lenses to achieve a ’70s vibe.
    — Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 15 July 2024
  • At the time, no one had ever shot anamorphic IMAX.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some kits also include an anamorphic lens to give your photos or videos a Hollywood-style look.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 25 June 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Khondji relied on a 360mm anamorphic Cinemascope lens to shoot not just that, but most of the film.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Montpellier shot in 70mm digital using large, anamorphic lenses to give the film an epic feel.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • McCarthy’s 64 is a line drawing of two anamorphic baseball figures coupling.
    — Darryl Ratcliff, Dallas News, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Wide glimpses of the mountain ranges, shot with anamorphic lenses, display the vast landscape that dwarfs Clara, her peers, family and budding dreams.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 3 Dec. 2024
  • For one thing, the 35mm anamorphic (widescreen) film found in the vaults did not have an attached soundtrack, because the sound is recorded separately.
    — John Beifuss, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Shallow focus and wide anamorphic lenses reinforce Mariko as the subject while sweeping overhead shots provide scope and scale.
    — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Interestingly, Soderbergh shot the whole thing using an iPhone 8 with an anamorphic lens.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 10 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • That includes the ultrawide lens mod, which boosts the field of view to 177 degrees, an anamorphic lens and filters, and a macro lens for beautiful close-up shots.
    — Brad Bourque, Wired News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Later, the frame expands to full anamorphic widescreen, creating a coffin-like shape that tends to isolate characters in threatening environments.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 July 2024
  • 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 motif of shooting this show, as Alex [Kurtzman] established in the pilot, were these tight moving close-ups with these new anamorphic spherical lenses that are up in people's faces.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2026
  • This kind of direction-dependent, or anamorphic, demagnification forms the basis of our high-NA system.
    — 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
  • The director also expresses this complicity, this complementarity, through his choice of anamorphic scope.
    — Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 9 July 2022

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