More to your original point, Tarantino is actually well known for his deliberate uses of rare lenses. He doesn't grind them himself, but he did resurrect a dead

More to your original point, Tarantino is actually well known for his deliberate uses of rare lenses. He doesn't grind them himself, but he did resurrect a dead lens format for The Hateful Eight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Panavision_70 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Panavision_70