Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/31

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Subject: [Leica] M8 and the Future
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Tue Oct 31 05:31:54 2006
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Very few square photographs appear well composed to me. I'd go 6x9 and 
be fine.

Matt Powell wrote:

> On 10/30/06, Bob Haight <rhaightjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> MF cameras do not have the awful dimentions of 35mm.
>> To make a standard 8x10 requires cropping whereas 6x7
>> MF requires almost none. 35mm was simply a result of
>> motion picture film and not a specific design. The
>> digital view is a vast improvement. BH
>
>
> I always thought that was a strange assessment of 35mm (6x6). If
> cropping to 8x10 'wastes film,' then print full-frame.
>
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