Lens Breathing

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โ€ŒLens Breathing โ€Œ

Even normal radially-symmetric prime lenses often exhibit focus breathing, which is a small change in the zoom (focal length) of the lens as the focus distance changes. This arises as a result of the motion of individual lens elements within the lens barrel, either directly, or indirectly via a change in the lensโ€™s entrance pupil location (nodal point), such that the scene is effectively closer or further away.

In an anamorphic lens, the situation is more complex: in addition, the horizontal and vertical focal distances can change independently, again resulting from the different moving components and potential different changes in the horizontal and vertical entrance pupil locationsโ€”a changing anamorphic distance.

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