> On 3 Mar 2024, at 17:45, Ralf R Radermacher <p...@uebra.de> wrote: > > Am 03.03.24 um 18:29 schrieb Bill: >> I was quite surprised that it is a vertical half frame, but the logic behind >> that decision is that a vertical format is what the target market is already >> comfortable with. > > Making it a horizontal half frame would mean transporting the film from top > to bottom and a very odd shape of the camera.
[…] Actually it would be the same shape but in a different orientation. I’m not a mechanical engineer so I might be completely wrong, but if you put the film advance on the new top of the camera it would perhaps need only one more gear to deal with the change of orientation. The rewind crank doesn’t need to be on the new top. Making the camera square would do away with that. In fact using a square negative 24x24 would give you 54 frames per roll. A lot of people now like to see the sprocket holes in the picture, postmodernly drawing attention to it being film, so making the frame mask switchable might be an interesting option. In the video he talks about using zone focusing on the camera. I wonder if he means click-stops on the focus ring, or perhaps on a dial, with symbols for the type of shot, eg headshot, head and shoulders, cowboy, full-length, group/wide shot, landscape etc. That could also be used to determine the exposure settings in conjunction with the orientation of the camera, favouring a larger aperture for closer portraits to increase background blur, and a smaller aperture for wider shots using the hyperfocal distance to give the greatest depth of field. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
