Quoting John Coyle <[email protected]>:
Only if you used an MZ-5, with the built-in 'panorama' masks.
Wonder what Ralf thinks of that?
The dictionary (Shorter Oxford English) definition of a panorama is
"an unbroken view of a
surrounding region" - no reference to ratios or focal lengths.
Perhaps we have become used in
photographic terms to define one as having a height much less than
the width of the presented image,
but that is purely a custom, I think.
As to cropping in general, we have a fixed ratio of height to width
in our camera frames, and often
this ratio is not suitable for the subject, and cannot be overcome
by framing closer or further away
without including unwanted elements, or excluding something needed
for the image: therefore, I don't
subscribe to the fanatical "never crop" group. I want to present
the image as I envisaged it, so I
will crop, even to non-standard ratios, if I think it necessary.
YMMV, of course
I think that's the first time I've seen an Australian use YMMV. When I
first saw that acronym a few years ago, it took me ages to figure out
what it meant.
The internationalization of language rolls on...
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Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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