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With the only digital camera that can capture a full anamorphic image.

Filmmakers and audiences alike have grown up with the uniquely cinematic anamorphic look and associate it with the emotional impact of big-screen movies. The sheer width and clarity of the format, its shallow depth of field, the way it handles out of focus backgrounds and flares, all of these have been burned into the subconscious of cinema-goers for over half a century.
The ALEXA Studio and D-21 are uniquely positioned to allow the use of anamorphic lenses through their 4:3 format sensor, which captures the whole image projected by anamorphic lenses.
The ALEXA Studio and D-21 deliver 33% more resolution with anamorphic lenses compared to digital cameras with 1.78 sensors.

What is an Anamorphic?
What is Anamorphic?

Filmmakers and audiences alike have grown up with the uniquely cinematic anamorphic look and associate it with the emotional impact of big-screen movies. The sheer width and clarity of the format, its shallow depth of field, the way it handles out of focus backgrounds and flares, all of these have been burned into the subconscious of cinema-goers for over half a century.

See here samples of the anamorphic look.
  • Twice the resolution of 2.4:1 Super 35
  • Unique look is painterly, impressionistic, magical and dreamlike
  • Shallow depth of field in one plane
  • Vertically streched, out-of-focus backgrounds
  • Anamorphic bokeh - Oval, out-of-focus highlights
  • Until now with the D-21, the anamorphic look distinguised film from video, digital and photographic stills