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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The unique feature of Samsung's affordable V-AF cinema lens range is that it has a bayonet mount at the front. At the time of its original launch, we had little information as to what it would be used ...

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.

Optically stretching images to make a wider aspect ratio is back in a big way thanks to the internet. Adam Hamer investigates. DIY communities have sprouted up on the web, dedicated to helping ...

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 ...