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jamescodeglia
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September 27, 2013
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P: Anamorphic Lens Support (De-squeeze)

  • September 27, 2013
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I shoot video using the Red Epic camera, which shoots super high resolution video. I often pull high-res photos from the camera and use them in Lightroom. However, I'm hoping to add a feature that supports anamorphic lenses. These lenses shoot natively-stretched pixels. Meaning, the images are stretched vertically 2:1. It's a classic way to shoot movies, and I wish Lightroom supported a way to select the pixel aspect ratio so the images can be viewed undistorted. Currently, I have to stretch them in Photoshop and export. Which is a bummer because the Red Camera's raw files are supported in LR, and I would love to use those files straight from the camera rather than make new ones. Anyone else agree?

76 replies

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June 16, 2025

Currently unfortunately not, but it would be ideal to have sliders at 1.33, 1.5, 2.0...

Participant
June 9, 2025

Could this be done in lens correction? 

Participating Frequently
May 4, 2025

thanks for this tip. best way for me. hoping that one day, Adobe will finally make this development to allow us to desqueeze more easily inside Lr

Pallacium
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April 21, 2025

Many thanks for putting this subject forward!

I've been pushing back my editing on some anamorphic photography tests just because of how much of a pain it is to go from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop for the desqueeze and have a proper overview.


Sample infos:
• Camera body: Canon EOS R
• Lens: SIRUI Saturn 75 mm T2.9
• Ratio: x1.6

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pDlOuqVMoY1doany8EkzcKOIpvvMrR2Y?usp=drive_link


It felt important to include both horizontal and vertical samples, anamorphic vertical does have it's own character for photography and the desqueeze feature should cover it too.

I've also tested some anamorphic lenses that didn't keep a constant ratio when changing focus, in close ups especially (I don't have any sample for that though), so the lens profile solution wouldn't help with those cases, same thing for many moded vintage cinema lenses and other adapters, it's just wild territory.

I think a ratio slider going from -5 to x5 (precise enough for 1.33 / 1.62 ratios etc) would already cover all cases even the most extremes ones with adapters mounted on already anamorphic lenses, in both vertical and horizontal orientations.

 

Cheers,
Romain

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March 28, 2025

 

Sample anamorphic images taken with Canon R5C and SIRUI 50mm T2.9 1,6x Anamorphic (Anamorphic ratio is 1.6)

 

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/a7xpvx9jup8lkkjfht78u/CanonR5C_Sirui50mm16-anamorphic.zip?rlkey=7jhrhh3fqviociae4yagpznlh&st=1va4afta&dl=0

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March 28, 2025

Yeah, I saw someone mention custom lens profiles but couldn't figure out how to make a desqueeze profile from scratch. A step by step YouTube tutorial  or something like would be helpful if anyone was inclined to do that.

ak41509677
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March 27, 2025

Hi @Dustin Stockel, like @Stu Maschwitz I too am really interested in your solution. I didn't see any info on how you were able to achieve these desqueeze options in your custom profile. Any chance you can elaborate on your process and/or share files as a starting point? 

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March 27, 2025

 

Thanks for the insight regarding the processing engine. Good to know!

Regarding your comment:
"Maybe if we just spam post "Lightroom Classic" into this thread about 10k times it will get moved to where we want it."
No - learn how the forum works before going off half-cocked... 

 

Put me on payroll and I'll put in the time to learn how the forum works. No need to get snarky. We're just excited to hopefully see some sort of progress on this since the thread started back in 2013.

Respectfully,

Ivan

Stu Maschwitz
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March 27, 2025

@Rikk Flohr: Photography here are some samples: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1li4iy7wxyffa787mwrln/Sony-Anamorphic.zip?rlkey=77etoa3re7pn4ebniawxvs6kj&dl=0

 

Sony a7CR with a Blazar 50mm Apex 1.33x. The Anamorphic factor is 1.33.

 

-Stu

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March 27, 2025

Ahh, good to know.

Thank you for the clarity Rikk.

I did not know the engine integration of Camera Raw in LRC.