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 ...

Liz Shannon Miller is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor, and has been talking about television on the Internet since the very beginnings of the Internet. Prior to serving as Senior TV Editor at ...

16:9, 4:3, 2.0:1, 2.35:1 – so many numbers, so little time. Here’s what they all mean. Aspect Ratio is a term that defines the shape or relative dimensions of a still image, film or video content. It ...

When you have a digital image, it normally has a particular ratio of its horizontal size to its vertical size known as the aspect ratio. Certain formats of images have particular standard ratios. If ...

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One of the best things I ever did was use "old junk" film cameras, as my wife calls them. I will rigorously defend such insults as I stroke my Mamiya C330F, the camera that got me seeing in squares.

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) ...