I sympathize. I've been trying to explain aspect ratio to my wife for
more than 40 years and she still doesn't understand. She more or less
accepts what I say but deep down I know she thinks I'm a bit tetched in
the haid.
Chuck Norcutt
Wayne Culberson wrote:
>
> Along the same line of thought, some few weeks ago I took some photos of our
> church with a rather unusual rainbow in the background. Wanting to get in as
> much of it as I could, I used the 17mm on the OM camera. Some of our people
> wanted a print of it, as of course they were not here when it occured. Here
> is a scan of one of the pics that Dwayne's Photo did when they developed the
> E100VS for me. It is as sent from them, except for downsizing.
> http://pastway.smugmug.com/gallery/1485763#189330018
> I don't have the skills to straighten the perspective on the buildings, or
> remove the utility pole and wires, but I did play around some with exposure
> and saturation, etc. I had a few of the variations printed at Walmart, for
> the nice price of 19 cents each, and gave them to one of our folks at church
> to look at last Sunday. At that price, I've decided to make a copy or two
> for all of our folks, and just include them for free in our church bulletin.
>
> Of course the ones who've already seen the pictures mentioned enlargements.
> So I had to explain to them (not the easiest to get across) that standard
> enlargements would more or less ruin this picture, as both ends of the
> rainbow would be gone. It's harder for folks not into photography more than
> point-and-shoot level, to comprehend this. So I told them it could be done
> in say, 8"x12", but that would be somewhat higher in cost as it eliminates
> Walmart, and that also it would require a more expensive framing option than
> what you might grab at Walmart.
>
> Wayne (who would appreciate it if anyone wants to mooosterize the photos, as
> I'm not so good at it. I may try later to upload some full size.)
>
>
>> Hmmm. I hadn't considered the 4/3 format problem with commercial
>> printers. And the P&S cameras have the same problem since they're
>> almost all 3:4 ratio as well. Interestingly enough, when I mentioned
>> this to my son and daughter about their P&S pictures they were totally
>> unaware that their photos were being cropped. They obviously don't pay
>> much attention to framing.
>>
>> I see that the E-410 (and presumably all the follow-ons) offer a 2:3
>> ratio but I don't know if that helps much if you can't see the framing
>> in the viewfinder. Maybe John H can offer a new screen scribing service
>> to go along with his rule of thirds scribes on OM screens. Even it you
>> didn't take the image in 2:3, if you framed it properly you could run an
>> automated cropping tool to control the final print.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
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