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What aspect ratios do Pentax users like?

Started Oct 5, 2020 | Discussions thread
yardcoyote Forum Pro • Posts: 15,754
Re: What aspect ratios do Pentax users like?
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I like, in this order, 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 (both vertical and horizontal), other.  But (with one exception) I never change aspect ratios in camera.  I always shoot with the whole sensor to gather as much data as possible and crop later in post.

You certainly don't need fancy expensive software like Lightroom or Photoshop to crop a photograph!  Any basic image viewer, photo browser, editing suite for a phone OS, etc, has a cropping board.  I crop my images (and do other basic edits like sharpening, and tweaks to gamma, contrast, highlights and shadows, etc.) in FastStone, which is freeware, and in Pixlr on my phone.

The one exception is my small camera, the Little Monster, which is a Fuji X-M1 with the 27 mm pancake lens on board.  I sometimes set this camera to 1:1 just for fun, particularly when shooting with a fixed aperture toy lens.

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