Canon has developed a unique optical solution to digital capture of very wide aspect ratio (2.35:1) imagery. It is an optical converter that mounts between the 2/3-inch lens and the 2/3-inch camera mount. This anamorphic converter horizontally compresses the object image by a factor of 1.32, which fills the 16:9 camera imager with an image having a full height and a width that is effectively 1.32 x 1.78 times that of picture height. Overall picture sharpness is higher as a consequence. Second, this converter will work with all of the standard 2/3-inch lenses - cine zoom, HD-EC primes, and EFP - and with all available 2/3-inch 24P digital HD cameras.