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.

Then there’s sharpness across the frame and this is where taste comes into play. Anamorphic lenses tend to be softer at the side, due to the nature of their build. Some will fall off toward the ...

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 ...

From lens focal lengths and fill-flash to portraits, macro or stunning landscapes there are techniques for everyone. Learn how to use metering, considering composition and shoot everything from ...