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Sirui's 35mm Anamorphic Lens is World's Smallest for Full-Frame (PetaPixel)

Sirui's new Saturn 35mm anamorphic lens is the world's smallest for full-frame cameras and sports lightweight carbon fiber design.

The Sirui Saturn 35mm t/2.9 anamorphic lens is available now for $1,300 directly from The lens also has manual aperture control. The length also varies slightly but is around four inches (about 100 millimeters) for each version. The Sirui Saturn 35mm lens incorporates a 10-bladed aperture iris. The most significant difference is that the Saturn 35mm anamorphic lens covers full-frame image sensors, while the 75mm f/1.8, and Sirui’s other 1.33x anamorphic lenses, cover APS-C sensors. In the case of the Saturn lens, even though it’s designed for 3:2 aspect ratio full-frame image sensors, it can capture the field of view of a 2.4:1 or 2.8:1 aspect ratio while using the full height of the image sensor. The Sirui Saturn 35mm lens offers the same anamorphic goodness as Sirui’s other anamorphic lenses, including streak effects. Without such a feature, it can be challenging when working with an anamorphic lens, given that everything looks squished in the viewfinder. However, it has a greater constant squeeze ratio (1.6x) than Sirui’s anamorphic lenses for APS-C cameras. In 2021, [Sirui launched a groundbreaking 75mm f/1.8 1.33x anamorphic lens](https://petapixel.com/2021/05/25/sirui-launches-groundbreaking-75mm-f-1-8-1-33x-anamorphic-lens/), joining existing 24mm f/2.8, 35mm f/1.8, and 50mm f/1.8 1.33x anamorphic lenses. The $1,300 lens offers 2.4:1 and 2.8:1 de-squeezed aspect ratios (1.6x constant squeeze ratio) and is built using a lightweight carbon fiber barrel. Per Sirui, it’s the world’s smallest carbon fiber full-frame anamorphic lens.

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Innovation is happening: cultural education through a gender lens (UNESCO)

In response to this situation, UNESCO Peru has been offering a Cultural Managers Scholarship (Beca Gestoras Culturales in spanish) in partnership with the Lima ...

from Ayacucho, Peru, a winner of the Bicentenary Art Competition and a semi-finalist in the National Painting Competition of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, said: "Thanks to the scholarship I love my work more. When a more integrated and culturally responsive approach is adopted to benefit everyone and ensure inclusion in higher education system reflecting the existing cultural and gender gaps, that is where the innovation starts. To attend higher education in culture-related programmes that integrate a gender mainstreaming approach also contributes to reducing the intergenerational transmission of poverty at the family level. In Peru, men employed in the cultural sector is more than 20% higher than women employees (Ministry of Culture, 2022). In other words, one of the most complex challenges the country faces is empowerment of young women in the cultural sector through higher education. In addition to this, gender gap in illiteracy rate was shown; 8.3% of women over the age of 15 were found to be illiterate, which is almost three times higher than that of men (2.9%) (INEI, 2021).

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