Photograph Works

Playing about with the image-size options on the Nikon P5100 yesterday, I took a couple of shots with the image parameters set to produce a 16:9 aspect ratio image. The pixel dimensions are 3968×2232 (8,856,576 pixels) as against the 4000×3000 (12,000,000 pixels) 4:3 aspect ratio, maximum image size of the camera.

I like the 16:9 letterbox format. I think, however, that the square format is my favourite format, and the Nikon P5100 offers that as well at 2992×2992 pixels.

And it also offers a 3:2 format at 3984×2656 pixels (10,581,584 pixels), which means I can keep to the same format as my Nikon D200 if I wish.

Ah yes, choice. One of the problems with choice is not remembering to change the settings. Which is what happened today when I took a shot of some furniture.

As it happened, the format probably suited the shot, but it was not until I opened the shot in Photoshop that I noticed the format was not square, nor 4:3, nor 3:2, but the long letterbox shape of 16:9.

I put failure to see the aspect ratio down to the fact that I only had my long distance glasses with me, and could not see the LCD screen clearly. Ah well, any excuse.