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?

[Patrick.Cloudscape.ch]

Please make it possible to squeeze images.

By a sensible preset factor like 1.33x, 1.8x or 2x, or custom (maybe reasonably limited percentage for example +- 500%)

This is needed for working with anamorphic imagery but would be a nice addition for any other case (why ever) you would want to squeeze the image by a set factor/percentage.

It could replace the "aspect ratio" value in the geometry settings, as this slider just goes from -100 to 100 which seems arbitrary and limited. What is 100 in this context anyway?

Right now i have to go through Photoshop on desktop, as there is no functionality in Photoshop Express either, which is very annoying.

[scottf52282122]

Wow, Adobe - over 10 years since the original request to implement anamorphic lens support in Camera Raw and Lightroom and we're STILL having to hack the exif data of raw photos to make it work?

Clearly the implementation of a pixel aspect ratio slider was too complicated a task for their team, so they tackled the much easier job of making it possible to insert photoreal AI garbage into our photos. Maybe we should ask AI to design the next iteration of Lightroom because Adobe's engineers are clearly not up to snuff.