Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Brick wrote: ><snip> > An interesting artifact is that 2-1/4 square images completely fill the > screen both ways. Looking at 35mm slides on a screen always reminds me of > looking at a Cinerama movie that hasn't been re-formatted, on the TV. The > human eye/brain seems to meld very well with the square format. It does > not, subconsciously, seem like something is missing. It seems fulfilling. > > Jim > > At 04:30 PM 8/11/99 -0700, Mark wrote: > > > >I'm surprised to hear this because from what I often hear and not have > >personally yet seen is that a projected medium format slide is an astounding > >sight! ><snip> I think part of it is it is just to hard to force light though such a small opening as 24 by 36 and project it on a screen without melting the film or shattering it's glass mount even. With 6x6 the light just passes through. Mark Rabiner