Jay Martin

I couldn't really find a single answer online about this. I'm trying to find out if there would be a noticeable difference in quality in using a good anamorphic lens on a DSLR over just shooting 16:9 and cropping the image in post. Some people said that because a lot of anamorphic lenses aren't that sharp, the sharpness will ultimately be the same or worse, but I have not come across any comparisons. I was wondering if anyone has done any side by side comparisons of sharpness between an aspherical lens (cropped, less resolution, like 1920 x 800) and an anamorphic lens (stretched out, like from 1920x1080 to 2560x1080) and which one they found to be higher quality. Thanks!