Cutting photos: yes or no?
Different formats under one hat?
After using different cameras, sometimes even the camera of my old smartphone, my photos different formats.
And yes, please note my choice of words:I use the camera of my old smartphone. and not:I use my old smartphone.‘ This makes a significant difference.
Sometimes most of my photos, especially the photos and slides that I have shared with my old analogues compact cameras and SLR camera, in small frame format (36mm x 24mm), i.e. in classical 3:2 format (a lateral ratio of 3:2 = 1,5); Thus, the length of the image is one and a half times as long as the width of the image.
But some photos in my folders and databases are in 4:3 format (micro four thirds, MFT) And some will follow in this more square-like format. The 4:3 format logically makes better use of the round image area of a lens than other narrow rectangular formats such as 3:2, 16:9, 16:10 or even extreme panoramic formats.
I put more circle into a square than into a rectangle..
More image, more pixels creates more resolution.
The closer it is about the optical axis of an objective, the better.
The image format 4:3 and also MFT comes to the Medium format At 17.3 mm × 13.0 mm, it is still much smaller than the sensors of several centimeters in medium format cameras (from 6 cm × 4.5 cm to 6 cm × 9 cm).
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Images in MFT or 4:3 format are slightly higher compared to images in classic 3:2 format with the same page length of the photos (4:3 = 1.3). Everyday mathematics: Not for school but for life we learn.
Direct comparison 3:2 versus 4:3 micro four third (MFT) format
Photo: Winter twilight | Winter Dusk (c) 2024, fahmy.blog
The photo was taken during a small walk in the forest with a smartphone more than 5 years old. I had actually forgotten to bring my small compact camera.
This proves once again that the best camera is the one you have with you to capture a fleeting moment like this – in passing. I will also never forget that I was standing on very soft ground and the sole of my hiking boot had almost detached. Memories.
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Cutting photos or not?
I was now faced with a choice:
Either I unify the format of all images and Present all images in the same classic 3:2 format or I leave the pictures in their original slightly larger format of 4:3?
I had already answered this question before I asked myself this question:
Each format has its justification, whether 3:2, 4:3, 16:9 or yet 1:1, whether landscape or portrait format, whether an image is large or small, colorful or black and white, etc., but
I would never, if there were any other possibility, crop an image of its upper and lower edges just to "press" it into a smaller format.
The format of an image, like the rest of the image composition, belongs to the printout of the image.
In addition, the decision as to which photo format is chosen is in principle already made with the choice of the camera or sensor (former film), even if photos can be tailored afterwards.
Ultimately, everyone:r can and should decide for themselves how the photo should look.
The result counts. No technical frills.
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The essential question was whether my blog's web software will display the different formats in different posts, galleries, views, resolutions and computers without interference?
But this is another story.
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