There are common lenses like wide-angle, macro, and zoom, as well as lesser-known specialty ones like the anamorphic lens. Anamorphic camera lenses, like those found in the Viltrox EPIC anamorphic ...

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.

The lens' anamorphic 1.5x squeeze ratio enables a 2.66:1 aspect ratio on a 16:9 sensor after de-squeezing, producing a more pronounced cinematic effect than a conventional 1.33x lens, while being ...

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 ...

1), and a 16:9 TV will show a slight letterboxed effect. For very wide screen films shot in Panavision and Cinemascope, a 16:9 TV will still show a prominent letterbox. See anamorphic lens and ...