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Old 9th July 2018, 22:20   #14  |  Link
johnmeyer
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Originally Posted by davidhorman View Post
Editing has nothing to do with it; it's an in-camera effect caused by the particular lenses used.
Hmm ... interesting. I know that when film was used, the cameras for widescreen movies used anamorphic lenses that stretched the image more at the sides than in the center in order to get widescreen onto a 4:3 35mm or 70mm negative while still providing a sharp crisp picture in the center.

I never thought about what might happen with such a lens and its stretching if it were a zoom lens. Perhaps when zoomed, the nature of the anamorphic stretch changes. I know that Hitchcock used to simultaneously move the camera away from the subject while zooming in order to disorient the viewer. He used this both in "Vertigo," and in the staircase scene in "Psycho."
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