eli5: Why are screens and video imagery rectangular, while camera lenses are round?
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The sensor inside the camera is rectangular, so the image the camera creates is rectangular. The lens focuses light on the sensor, and could be any shape as long as the light ends up covering the sensor (think about eyeglass lenses: they often aren’t round). However, it’s easiest to make round lenses, so that’s what they use.
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