Why are we not seeing sensors this size? They can be used with

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>>2838800

>>2838800
While we're at it, circular sensors!!!11!

>>2838800
The 3:2 area that can be cropped from that is significantly smaller than the standard 35mm frame.

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The 1:1 aspect ratio have never been popular in art, until photography arrived in the 1900. But still then the 2:3 aspect ratio was dominating.
The last few years 1:1 have been exploding though, much thanks to Instagram and hipster culture (old "hipster" cameras used 1:1).
Wouldn't surprise me if we see start seeing with square sensors within a year or two. But then not because the larger sensor (17% is too little to matter), but for aesthetics.

>>2838816
>The 1:1 aspect ratio have never been popular in art

And for good reasons:
In the vast majority of cases it's shit for composition.

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I seriously don't understand why smartphone sensors aren't sized sized something like this.

Main advantage: allows for horizontal video without loss of quality, even when the retards hold their phones vertically.

But also allow different aspect ratio's at their optimal size.

Main disadvantage: it will cost $0.10 more.

>>2838846
>corners of every image ever are just black
Thank god you're not an engineer. I don't understand how you can be that retarded.

>>2838861
Hipsters would eat that shit up

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>>2838800
Maybe some room is needed for the autofocus and light sensors. Maybe.

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>>2838800
Because photo aspect ratios are a hold-over from the film days, where the size of your image was maxed out on one dimension by the width of the film, and yet people wanted a larger image than a square would have provided.

Because most subjects and scenes frame better with more space on one dimension than the other, which leads to cropping on a square format.

>>2838800
bc people are already used to 3:2
that could change someday though, just as it already changed from oval to 4:5 to 1:1 to 3:2...

>>2838805
3:2 is a maymay

>>2838800
Nice idea, I've thought about it before.
But it would cost a lot more to make an oversize sensor that would cover these esoteric formats - not just because the chip yield from wafers would be even lower and therefore cost a premium, but that demand would very likely be lower thus demanding even more of a premium.
6*6 Medium format is 3136mm sq, so still 3 times more area. So not really MF at all.

Maybe Sony will bring out some kind of mirrorless 645 MF camera soon-ish. If so, then happy times - that kind of sensor is already in production.

Probably because 1x1 is niche. Most professional MF cameras allowed a swappable back and it was normally fitted with 6x7 not 6x6. Square format a shit basically, how many paintings do you see that are square? It's a bad frame for complex composition, your eye is always drawn to the centre

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Why don't you fags just crop your snaps to whatever shape you like?

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