I hate to burst your bubble, but there's like a thing in front of the lens that's a square. I probably used the wrong terminology but... there's a a square shape that makes the picture square. The lens produces a round image, but the part that captures the image (the sensor or film) is square.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

wow....

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's dumb, I want my round pictures! Why do they have to crop it?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually, the shaft of light entering the camera has a square cross section. The lens is round to focus all parts of the picture equally, so as to make a smaller or larger square image with no warping. If the lens were square, the picture would warp along the x-shaped diagonals.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

"EpicTweets_" tweeted this a few hours ago: http://goo.gl/qanQp

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I was honestly just thinking the same thing like just this morning!!! Creepy...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This popular trend of pretending to be dumb is annoying. Look into that circle, what is the shape of the bit inside the center? Look at old cameras too. The circle is asthetic and so you can twist it to focus and unfocus. I am not a camera expert. Simply a man with a brain. If this question genuinly stumped you then please don't quit education early.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What would be your explanation for cameras that don't have attachable lenses, then?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

If you're from Africa, why are you white?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

OMG Infinity, you can't just ask someone why they're white!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

If I use a square bubble wand, why isn't my bubble a square?

by Anonymous 11 years ago