If you want to be a cinematographer in Hollywood, there are a lot of terms you have to know. You want to be able to ...

GoPro’s Anamorphic lens mod is finally available to buy, completing the set of lenses the company teased when it announced ...

In addition to the light leak effect, the 28mm lens I used most extensively of the three, and which PolarPro touts as 'The ...

Every lens is susceptible to lens flare, but higher-quality lenses are able to mitigate it better than others. It is caused by light reflecting within the lens itself, which is comprised of ...

Lens flare was a huge risk that had to be avoided, and it resulted in a brand new lens coating being developed to help eliminate it, and it set the direction of lens design to this day. But as film ...

If you've watched a J.J. Abrams' movie, there's one thing you're always bound to see: Lens flares. They're in his monster movie "Super 8" and they're extremely noticeable in his "Star Trek" movies ...

Of course J.J. Abrams doesn’t have to worry about Star Trek fans lambasting his use of lens flare anymore since he won’t be directing 2016’s Star Trek 3. Abrams has now moved on to a galaxy ...

They [lens flares] were all done live, they weren't added later. There are something about those flares, especially in a movie that can potentially be very sterile and CG and overly controlled.

Early adopters of lens flare were so keen, they didn't even stop at in-game scenes. It even made it onto the cover of Tomb Raider. Would Lara Croft have become such a household name if it wasn't ...

For me personally, Abrams' lens flares never really bothered me in the way they really bothered many other moviegoers. Unless they were obnoxiously overused, I felt they added to the atmosphere.