Hi, Saturday, December 28, 2002, 8:27:47 PM, you wrote:
> Bob wrote: >> The way you're dismissing the square seems rather simplistic to me. > I'm not dismissing square images, but square film. The camera makers seem to be >doing the same. In the future there won't be "square cameras" I suspect because it is >such a waste. Photographers > will crop their images into squares instead of cropping their squares into >rectangles. I'm afraid this doesn't make much sense to me, in two ways. First it means that people like me who prefer to compose within the frame rather than cropping wouldn't be able to, and 2nd because you seem to have the tail - the available paper and/or film formats - wagging the dog of composition. Since the square is such an important shape in composition it makes more sense to me to have viewfinder frames which support it and match the film, sensors and paper to the frame, just as painters will make a square frame and stretch the canvas over the frame. --- Bob "Our heads are round so that our thoughts can fly in any direction" Francis Picabia
