Anamorphic illustrations that reveal themselves in the presence of a cylindrical mirror, go back to the 1500s. Jonty Hurwitz takes a similar idea but plays it out in sculpture form, creating distorted ...

Anamorphic beam shaping optics are used to transform elliptical laser beams to a round shape - for example before coupling them to single mode optical fibers. Conversely, there are cases where ...

What does a cityscape, water fire and a low light environment all have in common? They are all perfect backdrops to test out the Panasonic GH4 anamorphic mode, of course! Recalling the last time we ...

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.

Cooke Optics has devised a set of anamorphic lenses with a coating that provides “more anamorphic character” (pictured). Cooke Optics chairman and owner Les Zellan said: “We’ve been playing with ...