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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Replay: Anamorphic lenses used to be big, heavy, and softer than their spherical counterparts. Here's why modern anamorphic lenses don't need to suffer the same limitations. The issue is that a lot of ...

The method used for storing wide screen movies on DVDs to maximize the resolution on wide screen TVs as well as standard TVs that support anamorphic mode. Similar to the way an anamorphic lens ...

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 ...

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