>>3920790For me its quite the opposite. This waterfall blur feels very distracting and busy to me. Modern spericals have very smooth blur I find much more pleasant.
Spherical lenses need to be shot more open because to create the same horizontal aov with cropping you need a shorter focal length.
Like 85mm f/2.8 anamorphic with 1.8x squeeze needs a 47mm f/1.55 spherical.
>>3920802its not really meant to be watched
>Meridian was developed as test footage for use by video streaming services. It makes deliberate use of an extreme range of lights and shadows, as well as cigar smoke and water, in order to make the film difficult to effectively encode for streaming. In one scene, the sky changes from bright sun to dark and overcast, interfering with the light balance;[2] this is a common cause of color banding in video streaming.[3] The film is shot in the high frame rate of 60 frames per second, making use of 4K resolution, and has a peak brightness level of 4000 candelas per square meter.[4][5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_(film)#Productioncolors are also flat on purpose and such stuff.