FWIW, several digicams are now appearing with 16:9 ratio option -
Panasonic LX-1/Leica D-Lux 2 (same unit, very sharp, noisy at 400)
and the Samsung Digimax pro815 that just turned up. Designed for
shooting mpeg's for your plasma but a nice shooting format.
AndrewF
On 02/12/2005, at 3:14 PM, Mike wrote:
> Maybe it doesn't matter in this case but FWIW my 16:9 tv has
> several options for stretching the picture to fill the screen if it
> isn't in the same proportions. Most of these options are variations
> on the theme of keeping the central viewing area close to the
> original proportions with greater distortion toward the perimeter.
> The result is pretty close to what Chuck describes.
>
> Mike
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