APPENDIX 4
Aspect Ratio
Cedar Tree, Lebanon
Aspect Ratio
This photograph of a cedar tree has an aspect ratio of 1:1.22. It falls short of the Golden Mean ratio of 1:1.62.
A Train Called Mountain Thunder
David A. Page
The aspect ratio is the relation of height to width in the final image, or a frame of a camera’s image capture area. It is expressed in whole numbers and separated by a colon. For example, both 4×5 and 8×10 cameras have a shooting aspect ratio of 4:5. A standard 35mm film camera which has a 1 inch by 1.5 inch image capture area, ...
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