TheSeeker wrote:
BrEnDoN wrote:
Start Wreck wrote:
Removing a big chunk of the picture and destroying shot composition is not modern, it's backwards.
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4x3 is backwards... |
Not if that's the way it was originally shot.
Cropping a 4:3 picture to conform to 16:9 today is no different than cropping a 16:9 picture to conform to a 4:3 television set back in the day. In both cases you are losing picture information. |
Or in some cases distorting picture information. Why does the picture need to "fill the screen" can't we all just be happy with OAR? There's several times I've watched a movie with my parents and the movie isn't i a 16:9 one so you get the matting on the TV and they wonder the picture doesn't "fill the screen." No, because it's a movie that was filmed in a 2:1 aspect ratio so it's not going to "fill the screen."
I can understand wanting a P&S version of movies when we were watching VHS tapes on a 27# 4:3" TV, you'd get a very tiny picture. But things are much different today.
Keep it OAR. It's the way you're meant to view it.