Anamorphic lenses are very popular right now, so here's a guide to what all those compression ratios mean! It's not really clear why anamorphic lenses originally had a two-to-one compression ratio.

LOS ANGELES—The venerable anamorphic format was developed for cinema by Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1950s. The studio wanted breathtaking, widescreen movies in order to compete with the newer medium ...

If you love the classic look of old ultra-wide movies but don't want to invest in an expensive camera to shoot your own versions, Sirui's new anamorphic mobile lens gives you a solid, relatively cheap ...

I'm not sure I understand your question but anamorphic material will always have to scale or stretch, there's no extra resolution there, it's the same number of pixels as a non anamorphic image by the ...

Anamorphic lenses are a great way to shoot in widescreen, but they’re prohibitively expensive on digital formats. Enthusiasts have experimented with using anamorphic adapter lenses from old projectors ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Photographers searching for a anamorphic lens may be worth investigating the SIRUI 75mm which is coming to the end of its successful crowdfunding campaign which has helped the project raised over $600 ...