Canon S3 Widescreen Mode
The Canon S3 can take photos (but not movies -- drat!) in widescreen 16:9 format and I have increasingly been shooting this way. To change to widescreen, press FUNC and then scroll down to the image size icon at the bottom. Select W, and exit by pressing FUNC again. Now the camera will chop off the top and bottom 1/8 of the image and deliver a smaller file.
The look of the image is very different from the normal 4:3 format, certainly for viewing on a computer. This first image is a regular photo viewed in Aperture at full screen:
The black bars at each side are filled in because the ratios do not match. The same photo taken in wide screen mode displays like this:
There are still bars, but the narrower horizontal bars are much less obtrusive, the uninteresting sky and road parts of the image are no longer present, and the image fills a wider field of my eyes' view. Altogether a nicer picture, achieved just by throwing information away.
The look of the image is very different from the normal 4:3 format, certainly for viewing on a computer. This first image is a regular photo viewed in Aperture at full screen:
The black bars at each side are filled in because the ratios do not match. The same photo taken in wide screen mode displays like this:
There are still bars, but the narrower horizontal bars are much less obtrusive, the uninteresting sky and road parts of the image are no longer present, and the image fills a wider field of my eyes' view. Altogether a nicer picture, achieved just by throwing information away.
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