Buy a larger display for your desktop system ... The problem when most displays went 16:9 and 16:10 format is that the same diagonal gives less vertical headroom for square and portrait photos. So you just need a bigger screen so that a nice presentation program can make the verticals look nice. :-)
I've been working on a Apple Cinema Display 23" which has a 16:10 proportion. I went for it because the 20" was lacking in vertical space. I'll replace it soon with a new Apple Cinema Display 27" model (my partner's Samsung display is about to go belly up, and my current display will work nicely with his MacBook ...). That change nets another inch and some vertical space... On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: > So, more or less everybody looks at pictures on computer screens (Yes, > there are exceptions, I know). More or less all computer screens are > wider than they are tall (Y,tae,Ik). Most pictures look better bigger > (Y,...). Thus there's a strong incentive to avoid, these days, the > vertical "portrait" format. This sort of sucks. > > Just feeling sorry for myself because when in Barcelona I had the good > fortune to visit the incredible Sagrada Familia cathedral, and of > course took lots of pictures, but they're all extremely vertical, for > obvious reasons. And they look dinky on my screen. Whine whine > whine. On the other hand, when you look at them on an iPad or > competitor in portrait mode... well, mmmm. -T > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
