[Leica] Square format

[leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

You like vertical format? And you like it big? Then this is your camera:
http://tinyurl.com/37wyza 
;-)
Didier



>I don't know, or have forgotten, the origins of our current "standard"  
>formats for photos. It seems that 6X6 cm is the only "common" square  
>standard.
>
>Did this perhaps come from the difficulty of rotating cameras to go  
>from horizontal to vertical?
>
>While it might waste silver, the square could easily let you punch out  
>the 2:3 ratio (4X6 or 6X4) as a vertical or horizontal without having  
>to try to tip your TLR over on its side. The old folders were much  
>more convenient vertical than horizontal, also.
>
>After all, a square composition will end up wasting silver on the  
>print. I don;t remember ever seeing square format printing paper. It  
>certainly was not common.
>
>Ric Carter