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.

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 ...

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 ...