cinematography Cinematography () is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers use a lens (optics), lens to focus reflected light from objects into a real image that is transferred to some image sen ...

, full frame refers to an image area (today most commonly on a digital sensor) that is the same size as that used by a 35mm ''still'' camera. Still cameras run the film ''horizontally'' behind the lens, whereas standard 35mm motion-picture cameras run the film ''vertically''. Thus a 35mm still camera's image is significantly larger than that of a standard 35mm motion-picture camera. 35mm still frame Specialty motion-picture formats have used film running horizontally, notably

VistaVision VistaVision is a higher resolution, widescreen variant of the 35 mm motion picture film format that was created by engineers at Paramount Pictures in 1954. Paramount did not use anamorphic processes such as CinemaScope but refined the ...

(which produced a "full-frame" image) and

IMAX IMAX is a proprietary system of High-definition video, high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and movie theater, theaters known for having very large screens with a tall aspect ratio (image), aspect ratio (approximately ei ...

. Historically, most digital cinema cameras have used Super-35-sized (similar to APS-C) sensors, largely to maintain compatibility with existing lenses and to produce traditional "cinematic" depth of field and field of view. Full-frame cameras require lenses with larger optics, and produce shallower depth of field than conventional 35mm cinema cameras.https://fstoppers.com/education/understanding-how-sensor-size-affects-depth-field-312599

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