While we are on the square format subject , I just picked up (possibly a mistake) an argus 75 TWL for $15.00 - more out of curiousity than anything else. IT takes 620 film...ergo.. but is 620 film still called that? I'd kinda like to try this little antique out - anyone have any experience with it or could recommend a good fine grain film for me to play with in this format?
tanks, annsan aimcompute wrote: > > Bob > > I thought I cited the evidence in my statement. Whether it's out of > preference or convenience, the rectangular format is demonstrably more > prevalent. It's everywhere you look. I wasn't really talking about > history, it was about what I see today. I think even most cuneiform tablets > I've seen in pictures were rectangular. It was discussing more visual > media, than art, > > I'm not arguing against a square format. > > Tom C. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Walkden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "aimcompute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 11:00 AM > Subject: Re[2]: Square Format > > > Hi, > > > > > It seems humans have a preference for rectangular shapes in art, as Paul > > > alluded to. Paintings, film, prints, media, books, magazines, movie > > > screens, are almost universally rectangular. > > > > > It makes one ask why? > > > > You need to look at a bit more art, or cite some evidence. Western > > artists may have used predominantly rectangular frames for the last > > 500 years but that may be for other reasons than some innate human > > preference for rectangles. There are about 60,000 years of art preceding > > that, and thousands of non-Western forms of art, that don't use > rectangles. > > Nor is the rectangle necessarily the predominant shape in Western art now. > > It happens to be convenient and easy to make a rectangular wooden frame, > > but go to almost any church in Europe, or to any place in the Americas or > > Oceania or Asia where non-Western art can be seen and you'll see how > little > > of it is made inside a rectangle, square or otherwise. > > > > --- > > > > Bob > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
