I'm hoping I am not asking a stupid question: What happens to the image when playing back anamorphic widescreen video (4:3) on a 4:3 digital projector? A 16:9 projector with enough lines of resolution ...

Anamorphic widescreen is a hallmark of cinema, a format originally invented to further differentiate the movie theater from a home television. It produces a wider field of view (in the horizontal ...

It's well known that the iPhone's video quality is top notch among mobile devices, with each release pushing forward what people can do with the tiny portable computing devices. Today we're taking a ...

I rarely buy DVDs... but today I went ahead and purchased DVDs of "The Boondock Saints" and "Doom" for the heck of it and brought them home. Now, I "get" 4:3 and 16:9, but why would someone make DVDs ...

Blazar's Sentinel 35-60mm 1.33X anamorphic zoom covers full-frame sensors, opens at T2.2, and pre-orders at $1,099 from June ...

SIRUI’s new ASTRA Series brings full-frame autofocus anamorphic lenses with a fast T1.8 aperture to a lightweight design for cost-conscious cinematic widescreen. SIRUI's new ASTRA Series, a new lineup ...

Although to the average person a camera lens is just that bit of glass you stick on the front of the camera to make stuff appear in focus, there’s a whole wide world out there of lens designs and ...

Even though 35mm film dominated the film industry for years and years, the majority of movies released to theaters were much wider than the stock’s 4:3 aspect ratio. But instead of sacrificing ...

Anamorphic lenses compress linearly on the horizontal axis. But you're not here for an optics lesson, you're here to find out whether Moment's anamorphic lens can give your smartphone photos or videos ...