Albano wrote: > Pal: > You really have to have a square mind to say 6x6 is a > waste. Square pictures can be very beautifull, why in > da hell they must be rectangular? The rectangle is > just a cultural convention, hence naturalized, but > it's still a convention. > Open your mind.
In stead of accusing people of having square mind, maybe you should open your own. I didn't say a word about the square format being pleasing or not, just that it is a waste of space: it is. You either waste film or waste paper; hence a waste of space. I never said it couldn't be beautiful or effective. The rectangular format has nothing to do with convention but with what the human mind find pleasing. That the way we are wired; lots of research has been done on this. If the square formate is so appealing, why isn't there any square photographic paper and when do you expect the square sensor digital camera? Perhaps the waste of a digital image sensor area will be too much of an excess to be viable? P�l
