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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Think you know what anamorphic means? Phil Rhodes takes us through the mysterious world of none square pixels and cliched lense flares. Most people understand the word 'anamorphic' as meaning ...

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 ...