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Re: 5p vs. 7p


  • From: P3D John Bercovitz <bercov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: 5p vs. 7p
  • Date: Mon, 21 Oct 96 07:08:31 PDT

Allan (Scrappy) Woods wrote:

>> Can it be because we are used to 35 mm full-frame images?

> But George, surely you've heard of the "Golden Ratio."
> The Parthenon is not a 5p building.

I think that phi ( phi = 1 + 1/phi which can be solved algebraically)
applies to the object and not to the frame.  I guess it depends on 
whether the frame is the art or what's in the frame is the art.  
Perhaps both?  Too fine a point?

OK, how about the best area of the lens, which is a circle, is more 
closely fitted by a square than by a rectangle?

John (Scrappy) B


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