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Anamorphic lens
An optical lens design that gives different image magnification in the horizontal and vertical planes creating a widescreen image A lens capable of compressing a wide angle of view into a standard frame.
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Anamorphic lens
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An optical design that gives different image magnification in the horizontal and vertical planes creating a widescreen image.

ANAMORPHIC LENS - a lens that compresses a wide-angle of view into a standard frame.

-Anamorphic lens - lens capable of compressing a wide angle of view into a standard frame.
-Anastigmat - compound lens which has been corrected for the lens aberration "astigmatism".

Anamorphic lens
Angle of view for an example of an image taken by a wide-angle lens
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Sony showed this with a Schneider anamorphic lens for 2:35 use. $8,000 is a bargain, considering just a few years ago it cost $800,000 for a digital cinema projector that was of course brighter, but didn't look as good.

Anamorphic lens: A lens which is capable of producing images with wider angle of view in one dimension than the other. Distortion occurs in the image, but the lens can be used to project the image in its correct proportions.

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