Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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.
Yes - part of the reason I went for the Pentax 645 system was than I really liked the 3:4 ratio a lot better than any other available. Much more than the 2:3 (1:1.5) of 35mm or 6:7 or 4:5. It's strange how close some of these look on paper, even when you draw them out, and yet how different they fell to work with. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
