[rollei_list] Re: S2 format

My Canon 1Ds Mark III has a cool feature. It will add aspect ratio information to your image. Using live view, it will overlay 6:6, 3:4, 4:5, 6:7, 10:12, or 5:7 lines on the LCD so that you can frame the image in any of these aspect ratios. The information is carried with the image and if the image is loaded into your computer using Canon's software, it will actually crop the image to that format.
Back in the 60's & 70's I photographed with an Alpa system. I was a frequent visitor to the factory in Switzerland and knew the owner (Samuel Bourgeois) quite well. I had the factory scribe faint lines on the viewfinder ground glass of my Alpa cameras depicting an 8x10 aspect ratio, so I could frame images that would print easily on 8x10/16x20/etc paper. 

Jim


On Sep 24, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Gene Johnson wrote:
I try to take each picture one at a time. I had a bunch of stuff on a wall recently, and I was pleased with myself for having matching frames and matting. But they were all basically 16x20 cut to either 4:5 or 2:3, and frankly, it was a little boring. I want to do 20X24 based prints, but I think I should probably start making 11x14's again too. I will continue to try to make each picture look as good as I can, regardless of which camera I'm using, and let the catalog take care of itself
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Marvin Wallace <Marvin0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: 
Marvin Wallace
One of the motivations for getting the "correct" ratio, is that if you
continually change cameras (like me), you end up with a catalogue of work that doesn't fit together very well. You perhaps will have beautiful 6 X 6 
portraits and then 2.4 x 3.6 portraits done with a nice lens such as a
summicron 90.
Though I have been unable to live up to my own ideal, it is good to use as few cameras as possible, so I would argue against the many ratio's are good 
hypothesis.

Other related posts: