On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Bob Meyer wrote:
> --- Henry Posner/B&H Photo-Video
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Enter the phrase "golden rectangle" in any search
> > window.
>
> Umm, suggest you do the same.
>
> A "golden rectangle" is one where the ratio between
> the short and long sides is approx 1.6 to 1
> (1.618033989... to be more precise).
>
> An 8x10 rectangle has a ratio of 1.25 to 1. An 8x12
> (and the 35mm frame) come closer, at 1.5 to 1.
I was just about to write the same thing ;-)
...so I'll just add and observation from the TV side of the picture, I bet
you have noticed that they are switching to wider format just because that
is more natural image size. Of course this has been known in movies
before, and as movies were made that way, they want to transfer those to
TV. But I've not heard that the new format would have exactly the same
size as some movie format... however, the truth seems to be that the area
that we humans see is much wider than rectangle. How wide? Don't know.
Obviously too wide is too wide.
Best regards,
Hugo.
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