haha wait. can you use an anamorphic lens to have, essentially, a real world stretch-res (4:3 stretched widescreen, so targets are stretched horizontally in fps games) gunsight? I wonder if any gamer-photographer has done that for airsoft or paintball
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that is a really neat idea!
i think there might some issues with using an off-the-shelf lens (either camera or projector) mainly because they are intended to focus from the front of the element to a distance, and you would need to flip it backwards to desqueeze the image so maybe you would need some kind of nearsighted diopter to make it work? or maybe a full second lens setup? optics are hard!
easier solution would be to use a regular lens with a camera or monitor that can desqueeze in software
so maybe a gopro with the media mod, plus a used smallhd 502 or similar
that would give you a robust, light, compact, inexpensive-ish solution compared to building a desqueezing sight using optics
you don't want to desqueeze though, the trick is you have larger target sizes vertically, and in exchange your two axes move at different speeds through the sight
hmm maybe i misread the original post, since it says "stretched horizontally"
if you want taller narrower targets, then yes a standard anamorphic lens should work for that
a Sirui 75mm would probably be a good starting point there