Hi, Saturday, December 14, 2002, 10:49:54 AM, you wrote:
> We've been through this before. Actually, I don't think we have. Besides, that hardly disqualifies any subject. I don't remember any discussion on this list about how the different ratios of the viewfinder frames affects composition. > at some good macros. When the object is a few inches in size and the > reproduction ratio is 1:5 (maybe even 1:10) to 1:1 or more, nothing beats > 35 mm. I wasn't talking about macro ratios, but about the ratio of the sides of the frame. --- Bob "Our heads are round so that our thoughts can fly in any direction" Francis Picabia >> Hi, >> >> surely it's not just a question of size, but also of the shape of the >> rectangle. Shooting 6x6 is very different from shooting 6x9. I would >> not be surprised if the preference that many people have for 6x7 or >> 6x4.5 over 35mm is strongly influenced, even if unconsciously, by the >> difficulty of composing for the 1:1.5 ratio. After all, if bigger is >> better we should surely expect to see more 6x9 around. Even though (or >> perhaps because) 1:1.5 is the closest of the mainstream formats to the >> golden rectangle it does seem to hard to compose for. >>
