Will still digital cameras ever move away from current 3:2 frame proportions in favor of 16:9?
Video cameras are moving to 16:9 (widescreen); laptop computers are moving to 16:9; LCD monitors are moving to 16:9…. will the still camera follow suit?
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4 Responses to “Will still digital cameras ever move away from current 3:2 frame proportions in favor of 16:9?”
i guess… but the largest format available is 22mp digital medium format cameras.
there are digital large format panoramic cameras out there but are only available to the inventors themselves and high end landscape photographers.
i suggest you take a look at the following digital medium format brands:
mamiya ZD
leaf aptus (digital back for mamiya 645af)
hasselblad h2 (ixpress digital back)
kodak DCS pro digital back for hasselblad
these cameras are mainly targeted to fashion photographers… but these cameras are excellent for other use if you have at least $10,000 for the basic system.
i suggest keeping a headsup on the following sites if in case an HDTV format digital still or DSLR ever comes out to the market:
http://www.engadget.com
http://www.gizmodo.com
http://www.dpreview.com
http://digitalphotography.weblogsinc.com
subscribe to their RSS feeds and use bloglines to aggregate these feeds so you get the latest news about digital cameras as they are announced or as they are available to the market.
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As long as people will continue to want prints made from digital photos, I don’t think a 16:9 standard will become widely popular.
While widescreen is a powerful and evocotive format for film, as it tends make the viewer feel as though he’s part of the world created by the director, photographic prints most often do not benefit from the added horizontal space (landscape photography being, perhaps, one exception).
That said, there are cameras and film formats that are available today which will allow a widescreen photo, albeit, usually faked in the case of cameras with sliding plastic bars above and below the camera lens. Kodak’s Advanced Photo System (APS) format allows a user to select one of three formats, one of which was widescreen.
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You can always crop or merge an image into 16:9
It seems that a shot is really the 1st step in a process to make a GREAT image.
Ah photoshop
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/panasonic/dmc_lx1-review/index.shtml
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/panasonic/dmc_lx1-review/index.shtml
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