Canon filed a new patent for Anamorphic Optical Lens system. The Anamorphic lenses squish the image horizontally to cover more vertical area under frame and once the image is captured then you can make it in the normal proportion again, as a result you get panoramic style image with wider Field of View. FOV
take a look at the details below translated by google
Description, self-interpretation of the patent literature
- Patent Publication No. 2016-57445
- Published 2016.4.21
- Filing date 2014.9.9
- Example 1
- Zoom ratio 2.67
- Focal length 37.5 56.2 100.0
- F-number 3.3 3.3 3.3
- Half angle of view (degrees) 11.49 7.72 4.36
- The image height 7.62 7.62 7.62
- The total lens length 259.95 259.95 259.95
- BF 38.25 38.25 38.25
- Canon patent
- Anamorphic optical system
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I don’t think at this digital age we need a $6K analmorphic solution
YES!!!! Finally! Why did it take them so long?