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Author Topic: EK prints: 1.85 spherical or 2.35 anamorphic. Ben Brahem Film Handler Posts: 3 From: los angeles, califoria, usa Registered: Mar 2017 posted 06-23-2018 10:25 AM                     EK prints in 1.85 spherical or 2.35 anamorphic scope prints I know it's like comparing apples with orange, but which one looks the best to your eye? Obviously anamorphic scope prints have finer grain and use a bigger projection area, but I am also told that the spherical projection lenses are sharper than scope projection lenses which therefore offsets the difference in resolution.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-23-2018 11:53 AM                     It is a matter of how the movie was shot. If you are running an "EK" print, it is off of camera original (except for opticals) so you don't get a choice in the matter. Anamorphic projection lenses vary all over the place in quality. Better ones, like the ISCO Blue-Star, for instance can resolve 80 ln/mm over much of the image or essentially what the prime lens can resolve. As such, I don't have any reservations as to the image quality (projection) of anamorphic movies...but it is lens dependent. Without a doubt, ISCO full size anamorphics are best. Blue-Star is at the top of the list, then Ultra-Star (5-element) followed by Ultra (4-element). The very last generation of Schneider full-size Anamorphics ("WA") are equivalent to the ISCO-Ultra but only the last generation...any before that are junk. In the compact anamorphics, the roles are reversed. The Schneider compact anamorphic is of similar quality to their full-sized one but more suited to shorter focal lengths. The ISCO integrated anamorphics are okay but nothing spectacular. They did make a Blue-Star compact anamorphic but I have never seen one in operation. The Red ones on the Ultra Star plus are the same anamorphic as the gold ones but with the Ultra Star Plus prime lens.  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Wood Expert Film Handler Posts: 206 From: Oxfordshire, United kingdom Registered: Jan 2008 posted 07-21-2018 02:06 PM                     Out of interest , was the main adavantage of the intergrated anamorphics that they could be used with wide angle backing elements at short throws? I use an integrated Isco in my home set up because it will focus much closer than my Blue Star full size lens .  |  IP: Logged

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