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 ...

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Since Leviathan, I’ve been more curious than ever about the functionality of GoPros. Often categorized as toys and far more prevalent on ski slopes than sets, it took Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena ...

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 ...

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 must be lens season, because we have another set of cinematic anamorphic lenses just announced. Designed to deliver an ...

The Letus Anamorphic Adaptor allows the GoPro Hero 3 to shoot glorious cinematic ultra-widescreen footage. It couldn't have come at a better time Jared Abrams has shot this short piece using the new ...

On Thursday, Moment released its latest mobile lens, the 1.55x anamorphic, which will give you lovely horizontal flares and a cinematic ultra-wide POV in iPhone photos and videos. The new 1.55x ...

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 ...

Most people are familiar with typical cameras and lenses, and the 4:3 aspect ratio images and 16:9 video they produce. However, when you step into the world of filmmaking, things start to get more ...