--On 06 December 2003 20:55 +1100 Wayne Harridge
<wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Has anybody mentioned that the 4/3 format is the same as for a
standard TV set, which
means absolutely nothing unless one wants to speculate that it was
designed by the TV
generation rather than the guys who designed a camera around a movie
film format.
I think you'll find that the original 35mm movie film has a frame size
of 24x18mm which just happens to be 4:3 aspect ratio.
As of course do nearly all the common computer screen pixel dimensions....
640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1600x1200. The only exception I can think of
is 1280x1024, (5:4)which always looks wrong on a CRT monitor anyway.
Was is not Oscar Barnack who decided to use 24x36mm rather than 24x32,
which would have kept the 4:3 aspect ratio?
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Ian Nichols, School of Chemistry
I.A.Nichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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