Graywolf's comments made me think about this issue. If the reason why people feel that 6x6 format is a "waste of space" due to cropping then:
1) Do any of you shooting any of the other formats (35mm, 6x4.5, 6x7, or 6x9) ever crop? It would appear that if 6x6 is a waste of space due to cropping that would suggest that no one or very few crop at all when using any of the other formats. I personally crop a lot of 35 and have cropped 6x4.5 as well. I'm curious about this. 2) If I, as a square format shooter (and some may say a "square" period *smirk*) can compose for the square and I like the square and I can custom frame the square plus there are lots of "consumer" frames that I can buy currently that will allow for square format without having to crop (at least up here in Canada) - so why would I deem the square format a waste of space? - I mean, what's there to say that all photographs must adhere to the 3:4 "standard" (or is that 4:3 standard)? I sometimes think that these "which is the best" type questions can cause more confusion and frustration than any other :-) but at least it gets the list going... Cheers, Dave Original Message: ----------------- From: T Rittenhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 09:08:42 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Medium Format-Which one is best? The real advantage of 6x6 is doing in doing photos for CD inserts. I almost said record jackets, but that would be showing my age. But, the real problem with 6x6 is croppophobia (fear of cropping). Many of us males born in the 40's and early 50's have it. I comes from subliminal memories of being circumcized as and infant. Often it has been passed on from father to son to grandson, but most of the younger folk who suffer from croppophobia do so because they have never had anything but postage stamp sized negatives to work with and are afraid their image will be degraded if they resort to it. It has been proven that with effort the older form of croppophobia can be compensated for. The fear of presenting a bad image is harder to overcome. Strangely those suffering from the latter aberation can not bring themselves to crop even 8x10 negatives, but insist upon contact printing thus exposing their entire negative image. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
