Irrational format hatred?

[Dante_Stella]

Is anyone else afflicted by this thing where they would never buy a camera - no matter how good - whose frames are certain proportions?

My particular bugbear is 6x7. Yours?

Dante

 

[newsgrunt]

totally agree re:6x7 ! Loved the 43 mm lens on the Mamiya 7 but just couldn't work with 6x7. too bad, that lens is stellar

 

[sreed2006]

I'll try anything twice.

 

[Dante_Stella]

Poll posted!

 

[Dante_Stella]

&#%! —*omitted 1:1. Use the "other" if you hate Rolleiflexes.

 

[Steve M.]

I don't like, nor understand, 6x7. To me it's a strange format (although of course you can always crop, so it's really a moot point). My favorites are 35mm/6x9, or 6x6.

 

[maddoc]

6x7 in my case. Requires a different enlarger than the more common 6x6.

 

[Hatchetman]

4x5 what a PITA.

 

[Darthfeeble]

Hate? A format? Oh come on!

 

[narsuitus]

Over the years, I have used only three different formats (small, medium, and large) but have used about a dozen different aspect ratios. I did not vote because, thus far, I have not found an aspect ratio that I do not like.

 

[Bob Michaels]

I have never found an aspect ratio that I could not crop to what I wanted.

 

[charjohncarter]

I like 2:3 format and 6x6, but like you not crazy about 6x7. EXCEPT my best camera is 6x7, so please advise: what do I do?

 

[aizan]

6x12. it just needs to be a little wider.

6x7. all of this should have been 6x8.

6x4.5. i might as well be shooting m4/3 or aps-c.

35mm. almost of a why bother situation, except it's fun.

irrational loves: aps and 7x17.

 

[kxl]

I think 'loathe' may be too strong of a word for this, but 6x7 is a challenge.

 

[Larry H-L]

I tended to crop 6x7 to 6x6, 1:1, when I used a work camera in the past, but have never purchased a 6x7 camera personally.

2:3 is good, and as I shoot more and more video, I'm really liking 16:9.

 

[Pablito]

6x8 is a really pleasing format but I think there has only been one commercially produced camera in that format, can't remember what it was, maybe a Fuji or a Bronica.

 

[Robert Lai]

Why all this prejudice against 6x7?
I love my Voigtlander Bessa IIIW. I keep it in 6x7 all the time, even though it can also shoot 6x6.

If I want a 6x6 image, I have a variety of TLRs, and folding rangefinders to work with.

With the 6x7, I know which camera took the picture, as I only have one of that format.

Photographic principles are the same in composition.
Just watch what's in the edges and corners.

i have the Coolscan 9000, which has a maximum size of 6x9. For that reason only, I've not gone to the panoramic formats.

 

[Huss]

I don't like, nor understand, 6x7. To me it's a strange format (although of course you can always crop, so it's really a moot point). My favorites are 35mm/6x9, or 6x6.

Throw in 6 by 12 and you are a man of impeccable taste.

6by7 looks like it does not know what it wants to be.

 

[benlees]

Strangely, 6x9 never did it for me. I'd look at pictures and forget it wasn't 35mm.

6x4.5: it is obviously MF, 6x6: obviously MF, 6x7 (my favourite): Obviously MF, 6x9: I'm not sure...

 

[Sid836]

I love 6x6 and 6x4.5, but due to the convenience the smaller formats offer, I use 135 most of the time.
(And this is why my stock of 120 and 220 rolls is larger than 135)