[LRflex] Re: Observations on digital shooting
- From: Richard Ward <ilovaussiesheps@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 13:09:08 -0700 (PDT)
Excellent Observation Rob,
I think you maybe are onto something with your comment about the 4/3 aspect
ratio having somehow subliminally pushed you into getting that Oly E3. As part
of a 'discipline' exercise my first year in college, I worked very hard to
shoot
and print without cropping my images (35mm only at that point) and in
retrospect
I believe that it pushed into my photography a distinct preference for the
non-standard proportions of the dang 35mm frame! As I went on to explore 6x6
and
4x5 photography, those image frames always felt 'odd' to me and was a difficult
intellectual exercise to make work well as print proportions (in their
uncropped
state).
Richard in Michigan
ps: how goes it with the E3 now that you've begun 'reading the manual'?
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From: Robert Lilley <speyerdom@xxxxxxx>
To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, September 3, 2010 3:50:28 PM
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Observations on digital shooting
More Observations on digital shooting.
I've been getting this strange sensation looking through the viewfinder of my
new Olympus E-3. Sort of deja vu. Last night it came to me. I shoot a lot
of
9x12cm on my Toyo 45A view and Voightlander Bergheil folder. It is the same
ratio - four thirds! I just happen to like the 9x12cm format better than
4x5inch. Its all coming together and I feel at home now -=sigh=-. Although I
do feel sort of stupid, should have picked this up from the beginning.
Perhaps it is one of those subliminal things. Now that I think about it, I've
never really been happy with 35mm or 6x6cm. I wonder if folks have a certain
ratio they prefer viewing the world about them and they just gravitate to that
format without even knowing why?
Rob
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