Re: How do I change aspect ratio of photos in Sony DSLR A-100K?

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:59:15 -0500, "Neil Harrington" <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 14:01:49 -0500, "Neil Harrington"
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And it's still not the same aspect ratio as most digital cameras
anyway, whether compact or SLR. Neither is your Samsung, I'll bet.

Don't give a *** if it doesn't fit the image... zero importance.

Then I don't understand your earlier complaint, "Mine doesn't, it fills
the
screen and distorts."

I don't give a *** about aspect comparisons between cameras and computers
and
TVs, but I do care about pixel aspect matching physical size aspect... as
long
as the image is not distorted. (obviously) So I always run LCD monitors
at
their max.

I'm still not clear on what you mean by this.

Ha I'm not sure where we are going in this! Let me explain my largest
monitor - it is a 24" Samsung, and does 1920 x 1200 maximum, so that is where I
run it. I tried it at different resolutions, say 1600 x 1200 or 1600 x 1024 or
what ever, but EVERY other choice was distorted, due to it's filling the screen
at an improper aspect ratio. There is NO choice in the menus to change the
horizontal size of the monitor, no way to put any black bands, so it is
distorted by Windows and EVERY program ran on it. Hence, I must run it at max.

I don't really mind the wide screen when viewing photos, since the computer is
an editing machine, not a photo viewer...

(I bought the wide screen for 2 reasons, one was to see HD films when I DO
manage to get some, the other was to display 3 explorer windows side by side and
get some real work done...)

The only game I do is Sims, and it can either run in a window, or do wide screen
with no big problems. I prefer to run a 1280 x 1024 window...


You can keep the same aspect
ratio whether the LCD monitor is at max resolution or not. For example, I've
mentioned that I have a 15" LCD monitor that I bought expressly for playing
older games that only support 4:3 aspect ratio, and unlike photo editing
software those games normally fill the screen with no option to run in a
window -- so on a widescreen monitor they would be stretched horizontally.

The 15" monitor has a max resolution of 1024x768, but many older games only
do 640x480. The fact that they're running at less than max res makes no
difference to the aspect ratio -- it's still 4:3, and likewise a game that
does 800x600 is still 4:3 filling a 1024x768 monitor.

[ . . . ]

Did you know that Gone with the Wind had an original aspect of something
like
2.25/1?

Where did you ever get that idea?!

From a book on Hollywood movie aspect ratios... if I can find it I'll post
a
reference.

Please do, but either the book was wrong or you misunderstood something.

I wouldn't mis-understand, but it is possible the book was wrong... they talked
about lots of different ratios.

I have a 35mm B/W movie here from 1947 or so, starring my late sister, it is
fairly square aspect, and I have no way to view it, since the (hand-crank)
projector was lost years ago.

I wonder if there is anything in Richardson's Blue Book of Projection, which is
around here somewhere...

There was no widescreen equipment in Hollywood in 1939. Especially in
Technicolor, the cameras at that time were enormously heavy and enough of a
problem to manage in the standard aspect ratio!

The earliest widescreen movie I'm aware of was the 1927 French film,
"Napoleon." That of course was silent, in black and white, and used three
cameras running simultaneously to achieve the wide screen. The movie was
shown via three projectors and three screens side by side -- some of the
shots being matched up for a widescreen effect while others were multiple
images (as used in "The Thomas Crown Affair" 40 years later, among others).


Gone With the Wind was made in 1939. They
were all still using the "Academy ratio" of 1.37:1 (usually mistakenly
called 1.33:1) then, and for more than a decade afterward. They didn't
have
anamorphic lenses or any widescreen format, and no theaters could have
handled a widescreen movie even if there were any, other than by severe
letterboxing.

Still one of my all-time favorite films, BTW. I've had the original DVD
for
years (it was one of my very first), might buy the later four-disc Special
Edition one of these days. Glad you reminded me -- it's about time I
watched
it again. That was sure a vintage year for movies, 1939.

Neil


Frankly my dear, I'm gonna build a dam...

:)

One of the really great films. And it's one that will never be remade -- far
too politically incorrect nowadays. Not nearly as much so as 1915's "The
Birth of a Nation" of course, but still too much for our heightened
"sensitivity."

Neil


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