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Re: [Digital BW] Framing again - Aspect Ratios

2005-11-09 by hogarth@snappydsl.net

Adam Maas wrote:

>I'm not sure of the exact origin of 35mm (I seem to recall it coming 
>from 120 cut in half, which may be from 70mm), but 2:3 isn't used for 
>motion pictures. The stock may be originally of MP origin, but the frame 
>size certainly isn't.
>
>4:3 is the standard ratio for TV, Motion Pictures use 16x9. Digicams get 
>their ratio from Computer Monitors, which inherited it from TV.
>
>-Adam
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/35mm_film

http://home.comcast.net/~igpl/Aspect.html

Why guess when you can look it up?
--
Bruce Watson

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