Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > Do you consider then that the squares were ideal for cropping from > for your > output? Yes. And the art directors loved the square because they could often go with the square or horizontal or vertical. > Worked best because you didn't need to turn the camera on its side for > portrait format? Yes. again - also part of the charm of the Rollei tlr - it hangs there at your midriff with a window to the world - captured with a near silent click. > You could afford to use part of each frame to allow for composition > error > and output proportions? "composition error?" feels quite unprofessional The vast majority of my 120, 220 work as with my sheet film work is quite tightly cropped. Can't imagine any pro or serious amateur buying into a top shelf photographic system to allow for "composition error." Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist