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Anamorphic format is the cinematography technique of shooting a widescreen picture on

standard 35 mm film or other visual recording media with a non-widescreen native aspect ratio.
It also refers to the projection format in which a distorted image is "stretched" by an anamorphic
projection lens to recreate the original aspect ratio on the viewing screen (not to be confused
with anamorphic widescreen, a different video encoding concept that uses similar principles but
different means). The word anamorphic and its derivatives stem from the
Greek anamorphoo ("to transform", or more precisely "to re-form"),[1] compound
of morphé ("form, shape")[2] with the prefix aná ("back, again").[3]

In the late 1990s and 2000s, anamorphic lost popularity in comparison to "flat" (or "spherical")
formats such as Super 35 with the advent of digital intermediates; however, in the years since
digital cinema cameras and projectors have become commonplace, anamorphic has
experienced a considerable resurgence of popularity, due in large part to the higher base ISO
sensitivity of digital sensors, which facilitates shooting at smaller apertures.

Anamorphic format is the cinematography technique of shooting a widescreen picture on


standard 35 mm film or other visual recording media with a non-widescreen native aspect ratio.
It also refers to the projection format in which a distorted image is "stretched" by an anamorphic
projection lens to recreate the original aspect ratio on the viewing screen (not to be confused
with anamorphic widescreen, a different video encoding concept that uses similar principles but
different means). The word anamorphic and its derivatives stem from the
Greek anamorphoo ("to transform", or more precisely "to re-form"),[1] compound
of morphé ("form, shape")[2] with the prefix aná ("back, again").[3]

In the late 1990s and 2000s, anamorphic lost popularity in comparison to "flat" (or "spherical")
formats such as Super 35 with the advent of digital intermediates; however, in the years since
digital cinema cameras and projectors have become commonplace, anamorphic has
experienced a considerable resurgence of popularity, due in large part to the higher base ISO
sensitivity of digital sensors, which facilitates shooting at smaller apertures.

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