[Leica] New Leica! : now Proportions.....

[Tina Manley]

I used to not crop at all, leaving a black border around my prints in the
darkroom.  Now, with digital, I feel a wonderful freedom to crop the photo
any way I want to!  There is no reason to stick to the old film
proportions.  I still think of the Golden Mean and the Rule of Thirds and
positive and negative space, but they can apply to different proportions,
too.

With the SL, the files are so good that extreme cropping is possible.  I
love it!

Tina

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 11:25 AM Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> I have always wondered about this......
> If you go back in time, and look at negative sizes......
> 35mm = 2:3 ratio.
> Then there is/was .... Square ( never saw square paper), 2 1/4 x 3 1/4, 3
> 1/4 x 4 1/4  sized cameras.  None of which are 2x3.  Nor 4x5, the apparent
> standard for traditional paper ( the other is 5x7).
> Tradition has only offered paper in 5x7 or 4x5 sizes.  Never 2x3. (
> although with the advent of machine printers, 4x6 was offered)
>
> Now that we use computer printers to print, the paper is 8 1/2 x 11 or 11
> x 17.  Europe uses a slightly different size, but still not 2:3.  What
> camera(s) support this ratio?
>
> Frames come in any custom size, but the standard ones are 4x5 or 5x7 or
> 11x14 in proportion.  Notice, no 2x3?
>
> Purest types ( some) want every scene to be 2x3 ratio.  Cropping is a 4
> letter word.
> What scene is 2x3, precisely?
> What output is 2x3?  Paper is not.  Computer Screens (nominal proportions
> are 16x9 or 4x3 ) are not.
>
> You must accept the thought that cropping is required, somewhere,
> sometime, someplace.
>
> And as Sir Ted would ( paraphrasing) say.... stop worrying and go take
> pix.......
>
> Frank Filippone
>
> Red735i at verizon.net
>
>
> The Q2 will will present an interessting artistic quandry of those who
> refuse to crop the sacred 3:2 format.
>
> Will throwing the switch from 28 to 35 or 50 or 75 be a sinful crop, or
> present a whole new holy rectangle?
>
> ric
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