what Ian_T said.... would be a shame to close down this project

OK guys, i will give one more try to the project. I will take a look at kickstarter website, i did not know it until you point me there. (i am afraid if i fail i need to give the money back). I will ask the optical lab to build some cilindrical diopters and try some combinations with power and distance to see what i can get.

@JohnBarlow I feel proud and happy because I did this without copy anything.

Had another meeting in the optical lab early morning today and they will grind more glass. I will try 5 cilindrical positive focus diopter power and 6 negative cilindrical squeeze power to combine.

I do not have knowledge to work with optical design softwares, all i am doing is experiment with a range of lenses power and lenses shapes, of course this increases the amount of money to reach the result.

If one of these combinations let me shoot something i can upload to vimeo. But it seems It will not become a product due to no available optical large glass pieces to buy and large glass grinding to hire. If I have luck maybe some design will not vignette with the available glass.

you go apefos! look at kickstarter, it is an awesome way for projects just like this! :) And if I am not mistaken you either reach your desired amount of money, then you get it and then you can start the project off for real- or if the target is not reached nobody has to pay anything. very nice model and perfect for you! :)

I would love to see anamorphic dslr lenses done right! you could go a long way if you can do this- look, no one else does it! :) And it is no shame to read into the basics of this stuff. it is just some more optics knowledge. not copyrighted ideas. :)

I am studying Kickstarter website.

As I said before, i will NOT start a project without the squeeze and focus works good. To be sure these two goals will work i need to experiment with the new positive and negative cilindrical lenses. I am waiting them to get ready from optical lab to try. Also I just can open a project if I can found a way to build the large squeeze lens, PMMA Acrylic is an option.

Sound very good! How about getting somebody who studies optical design into the boat as well? I guess if you are at the point to kickstart, this could be a good investment. Maybe somebody even knows a student of this matter that might be willing to get involved?

There are also similar sites to kickstarter in other countries! Where do you live? You might also need someone to partner up with you to create good looking kickstarter/alternative site.

Advertisement is important, so the more professional this page looks, the more likely this will work. I, for one have done some work in designing my own website and several posters, etc - but it is not my main profession. I can show examples.

If in need, I will offer to do some work there- but maybe you will get an offer from someone who studies design.

Okay, It is understandable, then I can only wish you the best of luck, and I am looking forward to - sometime in the future - buying your anamorphic adapter :)

From Wikipedia:

"In optics an afocal system (a system without focus) is an optical system that produces no net convergence or divergence of the beam, i.e. has an infinite effective focal length. This type of system can be created with a pair of optical elements where the distance between the elements is equal to the sum of each element's focal length (d = f1+f2). A simple example of an afocal optical system is an optical telescope imaging a star, the light entering the system is at infinity and the image it forms is at infinity (the light is collimated). Although the system does not alter the divergence of a collimated beam, it does alter the width of the beam, increasing magnification. The magnification of such a telescope is given by: M = -f2 / f1 "

So it seems this principle can be applied to the anamorphic adapter, proven my theory using two cylindrical lenses was correct. Oh God, I invented the Galilean telescope again. LOL

Now it is so easy to calculate the lenses power and distance between them to get the 1.33x squeeze. And i can apply these formulas to the adapter using the lenses i will get from the optical lab next week. Will the magic happens? Will the image quality be good? Lets wait to see.

First results using new cilindrical lenses i got today. Using two cilindrical lenses, one positive as diopter, one negative as squeeze. Results are far from good yet, but it works. In this first test I got just something about1.25x (the first uploaded image was stretched wrong, the second is stretched correct). Also a photo showing the first prototype

1.33x squeeze, but corners are soft and IQ is not so good.

@sicovdplas no, this is not coating or glass quality issue, the glass is crystal optic glass. it is the glass curves issues. when lens power is big, the curves on glass are big, big curves causes soft corners. The first images was using smaller curves and results are better.

I could use the nikon 35mm 1.4 lens without vignetting and without try the big acrylic lens, just using the glass I have.