Digital BW, The Print

Hello Pierre,

>My personal struggle has to do with DSLRs 3:2 (1.5 aspect ratio)
>printed on 6:4 (1.5), 7:5 (1.4), 11:8.5 (1.29), 14:11 (1.27) and
>19:13 (1.46) papers.
> 
>I wish I could process the image once and be able to print it easily
>on standard paper sizes all having the same aspect ratios.
 
I too have never liked the longer 35mm ratio.  In the film days most
of my work was with 6x7 and 4x5.  But I was never fully satisfied with
the 4:5 ratio either and always thought the prints were a bit too fat.
 When I got into digicams I was happy to discover they all used the
3:4 ratio, which seems perfect.  These images look very nice in the
standard frame sizes.

So for the past 2+ years I've used a Canon Pro-1 (8mp with 3:4 image
ratio) and I consider it to be the ideal format.  One of the reasons I
delayed getting a DSLR was my dislike of the wider 2:3 image.  But
that's about to change as I'm in line to get one of the new Pentax
K10's when they arrive next month.  


>How do you guys handle this craziness?

I'm planning to get a KatzEye focus screen that has etched vertical
composition lines for the shorter format.  I'm hoping this will help
me to compose the way I've gotten used to.

Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
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