Following up on the buzzy announcement of the SIRUI 40mm T1.8 1.33x S35 lens and its anamorphic autofocus possibilities, ...

Thus, anamorphic lenses were designed to help wider, more rectangular images fit more snugly within 35mm frames without masking. This is accomplished with cylindrical lens elements at the front ...

A movie camera lens that horizontally squeezes a wide screen image into a standard 35mm frame. When projected, an anamorphic lens stretches the 35mm frame horizontally and fills a wide screen.

Other than a few very niche lenses, like tilt-shift or fish-eye, anamorphic glass tends to have the most distinctive look that is easy to spot, even to the uninitiated. They often have an almost ...

Similar to the way an anamorphic lens squeezes a wide screen movie horizontally onto a 35mm frame, an anamorphic DVD stretches vertically a 16:9 image frame to fully fill the 4:3 aspect ratio of a ...