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gdanmitchell wrote:
Good question!
I've long been a fan of the 4:3 aspect ratio — probably dating to my earliest experience shooting film decades ago and printing, way back in the day, in "squarer" formats like 8x10 or 11x14.
I continue to be very interested in the GFX miniMF system and there's a lot about it that attracts me. I've gone so far as to test-shoot one of these cameras a few years back, and I was impressed by the experience. And landscape photography is one genre in which the balances of pluses and minuses of the larger format can favor miniMF in many cases. If the right lenses were available, there's a good chance that I'd move that direction.
However, I currently continuing to use a 50MP FF system that produces fine results and which provides the lenses I prefer to use. (A lot of my landscape photography uses rather long focal lengths.) Yes, that means that I intentionally crop the ends of the frame — in fact, I set my the rear display on my camera to show the cropped 4:3 view
As to the 16:9 aspect ratio photographs, I'm not sure why but I've been increasingly interested in that recently. I have done some 2:1 ratio work in the past, but it is a distinct minority of my photography. I think the little bit of extra height in the 16:9 format works for me.
BTW, my thinking about aspect ratios really just amounts to a matter of personal preference. I don't think that any format is better than any other in a general way. It is more about how each photographer sees.
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Great post Dan, agree with all of that. I love to see photographers cropping fullframe to other ratios, letting the composition dictate what it wants to be. I too have always loved 4:3 and lately am finding 16:9 very intriguing, a cinematic feel.
I tried out the GFX 100S last year but sold it off after shooting it for a couple months, and am happily back to fullframe for my landscapes. The Fuji left me cold ergonomically, and in terms of color rendering, and I REALLY missed my Nikon lenses.
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