When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Way back before advanced television became a part of our world, most television engineers did not ...

The aspect ratio states the comparison of width to height and is commonly used to describe the shape of a TV or computer screen. For example, the aspect ratio of an earlier standard-definition (SD) ...

The aspect ratio of a film is the ratio of its width to its height. In layman’s terms, it defines the size of the black bars you see on the screen when watching a film. It may seem like a technicality ...

Another chance to read Serge Golikov's excellent article on the the often-confusing matter of aspect ratios, letterboxing, and pillarboxing, giving RedShark readers a lesson of cinematic rectangles ...

Why I use cropping information on my camera screen to compose square images for his clients and websites ...

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out." If you need to be inspired again about the amazing power of cinema, just watch any of these. There have been some outstanding video essays ...

Here’s an instance from an old VHS tape of “Advise and Consent, “one of the most daring American widescreen films. The slightly fatter faces are due to the distortion of the CRT monitor I shot from.

Last blog, John Elwell, a friend of Bob Simmons during the last five or six years of his life, shared stories from this great innovator. Here is Elwell's discussion on the planing hull: Aspect ratio ...