These images were taken with an anamorphic lens. Anamorphic lenses compress or squeeze a wider field of view on a standard sized film or digital sensor. The image is then de-squeezed or elongated when projected or in post-production. This allows a long landscape view to be obtained on a rectangular film or digital sensor without cropping. These lenses, which are commonly used in the film industry today, produce images with a unique look and are of a higher quality as no area of the film (or pixels on a digital sensor) are lost in cropping.