4x5 and Anamorphic?

[Graeme Hamilton]

Ground glass looks good. Will hopefully have a chance to shoot tomorrow and will update once I get the film back.
Thats a 135 Caltar II N in an oversized #1 Prontor professional under the anamorphic adapter. The front element diameter seems to be the limiting factor for coverage with this thing.
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[ic-racer]

How does it work? Do you mount that on the enlarger 90 degrees off when printing or something like that?

[Graeme Hamilton]

It adds 2 cylindrical elements that squeeze the image in one direction. Its a bit of a kludge and you have to focus both the anamorphic lens and the taking lens, not that different from focusing with tilt I suppose!
In theory you would mount it to the enlarger, but on axis not rotated. This is how anamorphic film projection used to work at the movies, as long as the squeeze factor of the lens on the camera and projector matched it would squeeze and then unsqueezed the image. I am one of those hybrid workflow devils though, so I will just use photoshop! ;)
Finally got out to shoot some city scape on provia today, will be excited to share what I learned once I get the film back.

[Graeme Hamilton]

Finally circling back on this and thought id share the results.
1. In a general sense works fine, but....
2. does vignette on my 135mm lens (not too bad though)
3. Does soften the image (know aspect of front element anamorphic)
4. Focusing is a massive pain in the :o

Below I am posting an un-stretched image out of camera, a stretched image (133.33%) and what the field of view would be without a anamorphic squish.

Out of camera:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/544c82dce4b0eb63aaadbf23/t/608f6f1e8a421213d86e31ee/1620012831102/FujiProviA100_2021-04-30-0005.jpg
4x5 Provia 100F

Stretched:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/544c82dce4b0eb63aaadbf23/t/608f6fd3ed4dab3a86ce1529/1620013011367/FujiProviA100_2021-04-30-0005-Edit.jpg
4x5 Provia 100F

Non-anamorphic field of view:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/544c82dce4b0eb63aaadbf23/t/608f708e0c570f3f8320fa61/1620013198932/FujiProviA100_2021-04-30-0005-Edit-2.jpg
4x5 Provia 100F

Overall, I am pretty happy with the results, and may continue to explore this.