Laowa Nanomorph 35mm T2.4 1.5x S35 Anamorphic Lens Blue Flare PL/EF

Laowa Nanomorph 35mm T2.4 1.5x S35 Anamorphic Lens Blue Flare PL/EF Summary

The Laowa Nanomorph 35mm T2.4 Lens is a 1.5X squeeze anamorphic cine lens. Fitted with a Micro Four Thirds (MFT) mount, the mount can be interchanged with Laowas dedicated bayonet mounts, available separately, and are both lens and mount specific. Compact and lightweight, the Nanomorph 35mm T2.4 weighs only around 360g, and is just 90mm in length, making it an excellent choice for use on drones and gimbal setups where size and low weight are a priority.

This MFT mount is suitable for Panasonic, Olympus, OM-System, Blackmagic Design, and other systems using the Micro Four Thirds mount.

The Laowa Nanomorph series are dedicated for Super35 and smaller sensors, such as Micro Four Thirds cameras, covering an image circle of 25.6x16mm. The Laowa Anamorphic series are full manual lenses, manual focus Cine lenses with unified placement of industry standard 0.8 mod gear on both aperture and focus rings for follow focus setups, and take 55mm filters. Laowa's patented design for uniform squeeze ratio throughout the focusing range. Their extremely compact size and low weight of under 400g allows for use where other anamorphic lenses would be too big, heavy or cumbersome to use, such as gimbals and drones.

The "Amber" version offers warm orange horizontal lateral flaring for a warming cinematic feel, emotionally drawing the viewer into the scene. Whilst blue streaks may be more traditional, they can give a cold look even in warm lighting which may not suit the scene. Amber is therefore a great alternative, or the Silver version (Neutral) can be used to adapt between cool or warm flares according to lighting and grading.

Laowa name their lens Nanomorph from “Nano” as it is extremely super tiny and light, and “Morph” for Anamorphic. The range currently include 3 different focal lengths - 27mm T2.8, 35mm T2.4, and 50mm T2.4. It is a front anamorphic design with a 1.5x constant squeeze ratio at ALL focusing points.

Other flare colour options available.
Three flares options are available - amber, blue & silver suiting different filmic applications preferences of videographers and filmmakers. Blue will produce cold, hard, streaks, for Sci-Fi, ice and cold, stark looking scenes, Amber / Orange is suitable for warm, indoor, scenes, nighttime dawn / dusk, relationship and warm love / romantic type scenes, drawing the viewer in. The Silver / neutral colour option is a great general choice, as flare colour will copy the natural colour of the light sources, the can be tailored with coloured filters, or colour grading etc. Please enquire if you require other versions or individual lenses not listed on our site.

Other mount options available.
The lenses are available in various mounts: Canon EF / Arri PL, Canon R, Sony E, M43 (Micro Four Thirds)
Also DJI DL, Nikon Z, L mount and Fujifilm X mounts are available on Special Order.
For the EL/PL version, the lens is defaulted with a PL mount and supplied with an Canon EF bayonet.
For the Mirrorless mount versions (Sony E, Fuji X, Canon RF, Nikon Z, L Mount, MFT, DJI DL), you can purchase optional bayonets for changing the mount.
The lenses are also available with Blue or Silver (neutral) coloured flares, individually and in sets.

Available as sets, or individual lenses.
Please contact us for other specific lenses not listed.

Anamorphic lenses consist of spherical elements and cylindrical elements. In the optics design of some cheaper or DIY anamorphic lenses, cylinders (anamorphic blocks) are added at the front and the spherical blocks are placed at the back for focusing. It is the simplest and cheaper way to design and make anamorphic lenses. However, the squeeze ratio would vary when changing focus which causes unwanted anamorphic mumps i.e. the face of actors gets swollen when focusing close.

For more professional anamorphic lenses, it requires higher optics design capability and it always costs enormously. The size of these lenses tends to be cumbersome and super heavy as well. In light of these, Laowa introduces its unique patented anamorphic design to guarantee uniform squeeze ratio and promising optical quality which solves the struggles of every anamorphic user.

The craftsmanship of the front element groups is of paramount importance as it acts as a complete single lens. It converges the virtual image while suppressing the aberration to the minimum level. The front group of elements requires meticulous optical design and exquisite craftsmanship as any tolerances will bring aberrations to the produced images. Keeping the lens small small is the other big challenge.

The Laowa Nanomorph series are revolutionary light and compact weighing <400g each and are 10cm long. This makes them extremely useful for many setups, including handheld, on a gimbal, on a tripod, on a slider, on a camera rig, even on a drone. Not many anamorphic lenses can be lifted on drones due to weight.

The Laowa Nanomorph series offer a short focusing distance to aid close up shots, without altering the anamorphic squeeze ratio. The short close focusing distance also helps render stronger bokeh and create stronger sense of compression, and more oval bokeh.

Nanomorph 27mm T2.8 1.5x S35 - 43cm / 16.9"
Nanomorph 35mm T2.4 1.5x S35 - 60cm / 23.6"
Nanomorph 50mm T2.4 1.5x S35 - 70cm / 27.5"

A 1.5x squeeze ratio is the perfect balance between the size and anamorphic intensity. With a 1.5x squeeze ratio, you will have a 2.66:1 on a 16:9 sensor after de-squeeze. There is a bit room for you to crop into 2.4:1 widescreen ratio. However, a 1.8x or 2x would become 3.2:1 and 3.5:1 which need more crop to 2.4:1 creating some wastage resolution.

A 1.5x squeeze ratio also renders oval bokeh which gives an artistic touch to the image. It also creates a blurry and creamy background that pops out the subject.

Flare Colour Options - Blue, Amber, Silver: Traditional blue flare is common in the market. It is suitable for sci-fi and cool vibes movies. But not every film matches the blue flares. Laowa is providing other options including amber and silver (neutral) option to users. Amber flare version is good for narrative and warm vibes but it is rarely found in the market especially at the affordable price point of these lenses.Compared to a more common blue flare, the silver version is a neutral coloured flare that provides more control over the flare colour. The silver version flare would change flare colour according to the light source. The flare would also be relatively subtler and less distracting. Cinematographers can now get the perfect look for different types of productions.

Unified gear position: The unified gear position allows users to switch lenses quickly and without readjustment on the focus gear, and all mirrorless versions have a front diameter of 58mm

55mm filter thread for screw-in filters: 55mm filters can be attached directly on the lens which film-makers can combo a handy setups. It is favourable when doing a Run-And-Gun shot or flying it with a drone.

Dual Scale: Both imperial and metric scale are printed on the lens body.

0.8 mod gear: Industry standard 0.8 mod gear is installed on both aperture and focus rings.

Features

• Patented anamorphic design
• Revolutionary small and compact
• 1.5x constant squeeze ratio
• Artistic oval bokeh
• Amber, blue & silver flare options are available
• Short closest focusing distance
• Various mounts are available
• Professional cine housing