"Pixel Count And Future Imaging Chips" aticle

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Happy New Year 2003

YES, Round Books and Magazines, that is great !!!!

Trees are round and we would not waste so much of them by making rectangular paper  [/font]

[Ketil Samuelsen]

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OK, so we all had our share of laughs,.. but seriously I think it is a good idea to capture as much of what the lense sees as possible, and leave the final cropping/format decision til later (i.e. in Photoshop rather than in the field) . You could get a bigger square crop or wider (but lower) crop with a circular image chip than our current 24x36 will get us.
There would no longer be a need for vertical grips on the camera, and even the tilting horizons could be saved without cropping the picture.

I appreciate the added cost argument, but this is probably just a matter of time, and original article was on future development. The mirror problem might be a bit more tricky though.

So maybe it is time to start thinking outside the box  

Ketil[/font]

[Doug_Dolde]

[font color=\'#000000\']They do.  It's in the Kodak DCS backs.  And there is a crop option 4:5 vertical or horizontal though you lose some resolution by doint it.[/font]