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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Alan Palazon

This ‘miracle’ lens adapter brought the big screen to the home screen, but history had forgotten it – until now

A small cube-shaped lens adapter for a camera. It has a glass front panel and a silver exterior. .

A key aspect of a gripping movie is the wide-angle field of view that seems to suck you in, so much so that a standard storyline can seem enthralling.

Back in the 1950s, a pioneering Dutch company called De Oude Delft (Old Delft) wanted to bring this cinema format to amateur movies and devised an anamorphic lens adapter for 8mm and 16mm home cameras.

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