Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Byron Rakitzis wrote: ><Snip> > For me anyway, 24x36 looks like a strange aspect ratio the more I use it > and compare it against square negatives and the print ratios 4x5 and 8x10. > > Who knows, maybe it would be better to burn circular pictures onto 43x43 > square frames, and then crop in the darkroom to whatever aspect ratio > you care to squeeze out of that circle! > > Byron. A golden mean rectangle is 22.24x36! I think the first Kodak Brownie shot 100 circles which you would send in the camera and they would send it back to you loaded up and your pictures processed. A bunch of friends of mine always used to way back put telephoto lens shades on our 24mm Lenses. Vignetted to a circle. Artsey Fartsey. A circle is the true "Anti-format." Next comes the Square. I like the way a 6x9 image fills an 8x10 print. And I also love the way a 7x7 inch square fills and 8x10 print. That's it for me and numbers I didn't become a photographer because I was a friggen genius. Mark Rabiner