P: Anamorphic Lens Support (De-squeeze)

[jamescodeglia]

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?

[grayj7988641]

 Anamorphic lenses are now more widely available, as is the demand for a "hyrbid" style of shooting where stills and video come as a package. 

 Currently Lightroom has the necessary feature to allow for easy anamorphic desqueezing, but it is only limited by the range of the slider. 

 In the past other users have found workarounds, but these are far from ideal. 

 Recent updates to Lightroom has made it possible to eschew a round trip to photoshop in many more situations than before, and this would allow many who shoot using ananmoprhic lenses to do the same. 

[John R Ellis]

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge with the existing Idea:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-de-squeeze-anamorphic-images/idi-p/11977969

(Note that another person in that thread also suggests increasing the range of the Aspect slider for anamorphic lenses.)

[grayj7988641]

This was immensly helpful. 

However, on OS X the new file isn't readable by Lightroom. It seems to think the file is broken, and thus can't be edited. 

As a workaround, I import it into bridge or photoshop which CAN read it, and then save the DNG again in Camera Raw. This DNG is them readbale by lightroom without issues. 

Obviously this is far from ideal. 

[hidalgo5EA9]

Problem with this method is you need to send to photoshop without mantaining the raw format and downgrading the image to DNG, a simple anamorphic function in Lightroom would be much more productive and intuitive then having to send files back and forth.

My post is over a year old and it seems to keep having people interested in the topic, so i wouldn't completely disregard a function like this as a convenient one, for street photography and cinematic shooting in general.

[ivanb84877422]

I'm going to say that this anamorphic function would be extremely useful. The workaround via Photoshop  is not ideal and then I have two files that show up in my library. Even a box where we can type in different squeeze ratios would be sweet. Being able to do any ratio would be ideal. Hope this makes it through! I'd really like to be able to browse these photos desqueezed and without doubles!

[ivanb84877422]

+1 for anamorphic support. Should be easy like the rest of lightroom 🙂

[ivanb84877422]

Bumping this thread. Anamorphic support needs to happen, it would be such a nice feature, space and time saver! Please implement. The year is 2023!

[lee11lee]

+1 

the workaround with photoshop is a huge pita

[ivanb84877422]

Agreed! Hopefully ears are listening, fingers crossed!

[bentr47454636]

Yes, let us set a squeeze ratio and it would be super awesome with AI support for guessing the correct squeeze factor for lenses with variable squeeze factors, like the new ~1.6x Sirui full frame anamorphic lenses.

[ivanb84877422]

Yes! Anamorphic support would be beyond great!

[ak41509677]

Wow. Here we are, 10 years later, and the slider STILL only goes to +/-100. COME ON, ADOBE. You get our money perpetually now. Anamorphic lenses are more available than ever. Don't you think it's time?

[TheDigitalDog]

10 years and only 26 votes, that's a problem and probably why Adobe isn't considering it. Gotta get more votes. 

[ak41509677]

I mean, I didn't even know there was a vote function here, or that it's how Adobe's development objectives were set. Maybe I'm the only one here for whom that's the case, but I doubt it. Anyway, it's *not* hard to allow manual values to be entered. They allow it on other controls. Apple allows it in FCPX. It's a pretty trivial improvement. 

[TheDigitalDog]

It's spelled out here: 

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/how-do-i-write-a-feature-request/idi-p/1238...

And you'll notice the upvote box at the top, with only 26 votes. 

As for 'not hard' to provide the feature, you have the source code, and you know not only how difficult it would be but what features are on the table that might have to be sidelined to provide the feature to only 26 people in 10 years have voted for? 

Get more votes, then the possibility (zero promises), the feature will even be considered will get considered. 

[ak41509677]

Lol whoosh.

[big2mouth]

Yes, please add this desqueeze function in LR -- at least LR Classic.

[peters20119289]

I am a video producer and shoot video with anamorphic lenses a lot. Every now and then I also use these lenses to take pictures that I want to edit with lightroom mobile. Unfortunately I cannot use the app to 'desqueeze' my pictures. It would be awesome to have a different slider in the geometry section of lightroom mobile. Now it goes from -100% to +100%, but it's not clear what is exactly happens. The app does not state how the aspect ratio changes. Alternatively, seperate sliders for height and width could also sort my problem, e.g. 100% width, 55% height (since I am using 1.8x anamorphics)

[M.Burdel]

Also searching for anamorphic support. 

[adrianr84830891]

I sometimes shoot photos with an ANAMORPHIC lens adapter. 

I usually have to use photoshop and change pixels to 2.33 to get the proper wide stretch. 

There is ASPECT setting under TRANSFORM in Lightroom classic...but for what? If it could go to 200, then it will work with all anamorphic lenses out there. So the setting is there...just need the capability expanded. 

-Adrian

[JacketCoat]

Just ran into this issue today. I rotate my anamorphic lenses 90° then rotate my camera, so that I can desqueeze  to a square image format. I was surprised to learn that LRC did not support this desqueeze feature.

[Student5F89]

I would like to see a pixel aspect ratio setting for use with anamorphic or heavily squeezed images. Currently, the only way to de-squeeze an image is via use of the "aspect" slider under the geometry settings, however this slider is not strong enough nor precise enough to de-squeeze anamorphic images. A pixel aspect ratio setting could allow for exact squeeze factors to be entered and for the image to be resized accordingly.

[Alex Mejia]

The reason why this is so needed in lightroom, is that the workflow for HDR photos doesn't travel well outside of Lightroom, Typically when you shoot camera Raw, you need to maintain all those settings if you want to have a non-destructive workflow.

I really think that having an anamorphic desqueeze as part of ACR would really fix this throughout the entire pipeline.  This way, even anamorphic desqueeze is user controllable with just a metadata parameter.

Please also give us the ability to set custom squeeze factors, do not lock it to common sizes (1.33, 1.5, 1.8, 2.0). Many anamorphic lenses have a squeeze factor that changes in the focus range, and sometimes you want to be able to fix that without making close focus having too wide of a desqueeze.

[dallassterling]

Hello adobe, 

Loving the power of the mobile light room. With the increasing popularity and accessibility of anamorphic lenses, it would be amazing to natively desqueeze popular ratios. Your aspect function doesn't quite cut it. I need up to a 2:1 desqueeze. Possible? Thanks! 

[ivanb84877422]

Agreed, it would be super helpful to have this feature. Selectable de-squeeze ratios is ideal