03-11-13, 03:44 PM
Rectangular shape? As opposed to square?
The 6x6 format used to very popular with Landscape and portrait photographers, presumably still is.
The format of your camera does tend to influence how you take shots. So it's not so easy to take square shots with a say 135 format camera.
Which is one of the things I find weird about modern digital cameras, that is that most of them are based on the proportions of the rather awkward 135 film format.
Thought not everybody went in that direction, Olympus, who often go their own way, not only went for a smaller sensor for it's 'serious' cameras but adopted the much more natural 4/3rds proportions .
And don't forget to turn the camera on it's side if it's gonna give a better composition.
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The 6x6 format used to very popular with Landscape and portrait photographers, presumably still is.
The format of your camera does tend to influence how you take shots. So it's not so easy to take square shots with a say 135 format camera.
Which is one of the things I find weird about modern digital cameras, that is that most of them are based on the proportions of the rather awkward 135 film format.
Thought not everybody went in that direction, Olympus, who often go their own way, not only went for a smaller sensor for it's 'serious' cameras but adopted the much more natural 4/3rds proportions .
And don't forget to turn the camera on it's side if it's gonna give a better composition.