Blake.H

Great work put into it and all, but as far as a demo of these anamorphic lenses go it may as well have been shot spherical and cropped top and bottom!  Would have been pretty convincing compared to this, which is really not what you want when you spend all the extra time and $$$ shooting with anamorphics.

Best to just photograph a perfect circle that has horizontal and vertical lines intersecting at the middle of it from various distances away.  Then unsqueeze at say 1.8x, 1.9x and 2x and compare until you see a perfectly round circle, that will be the squeeze factor.
I have an Isco Ultra Star that is labelled as 2x but after testing it this way myself I found it to be 1.8x.

The anamorphic cinematography in Killing Them Softly is just exquisite!

@Blake.H Hey, I wanted to post that!
I love movies with strong anamorphic bokeh. So Killing them Softly blew me away.
It was shot at T2 T2.5, even during the day! Check out this article if you liked it: http://www.theasc.com/ac_magazine/October2012/KillingThemSoftly/page1.php

The anamorphic cinematography in Killing Them Softly is just exquisite!

The anamorphic cinematography in Killing Them Softly is just exquisite!

Based on my test, blue star and blank star lens have different flare performance due to coating difference, see pictures.  The blue star lens has none, but blue star lens has a little bit, at least I can use it to do alignment adjustment.   From serial number to tell, blue star lens is older. 
#5 tested picture was from blank star lens. 
If not care flaring, both lenses' sharpness and view angle have no difference at all.
 

IMO, ISCO integrated lens, around $100.  Better optics and wider then other 16x lens, except 16H.  I have posted the test result before.