> Having only shot with 35mm for the last 45 years I have learned to > compose within that space without thinking about cropping. Emily You *always* compose your pictures to the shape decreed by someone back in the early part of the last century? It's the sort of thing I've heard in a camera club. If I want to shoot a square shot I'll use 35mm (24 mm x 36mm) and crop the result square. I've learned to be able to do that. I don't somehow see any real merit in going out and buying a camera with a 24mm x 24mm frame (I just can't see the difference. On the old square medium format film cameras one of the old touted advantages was being able to take all your (intended) shots (landscape and portrait) without rotating the camera. So I think I've learned to compose *within* the 35mm space accepting that some of the film is not within my composition. Bob
