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From: Scott W on 15 Jul 2010 12:09
On Jul 15, 2:42 am, "whisky-dave" <whisky-d...(a)final.front.ear> wrote:
> "Scotius" <yodas...(a)mnsi.net> wrote in message
>
> news:fsms369k0lm01f67vj3at5odi4pmhljdh7(a)4ax.com...
>
> > Why is it that camera lenses are round, but pictures are
> > square? Hmmm? Tell me that ya' smarteys!
>
> It's because trees are round which is what we use to make paper,
> but the paper we print them on is square (or rectangle).
> It's a  government conspiracy that's been going on since the dawn of
> photography.

You could make a square lens, but then you would need to take round
photos and that would be a pain.

Scott
From: SneakyP on 17 Jul 2010 00:34
Scott W <biphoto(a)hotmail.com> wrote in news:276670d7-07e3-4865-9d39-
ee5541e7db3b(a)u36g2000prg.googlegroups.com:

> On Jul 15, 2:42�am, "whisky-dave" <whisky-d...(a)final.front.ear> wrote:
>> "Scotius" <yodas...(a)mnsi.net> wrote in message
>>
>> news:fsms369k0lm01f67vj3at5odi4pmhljdh7(a)4ax.com...
>>
>> > Why is it that camera lenses are round, but pictures are
>> > square? Hmmm? Tell me that ya' smarteys!
>>
>> It's because trees are round which is what we use to make paper,
>> but the paper we print them on is square (or rectangle).
>> It's a �government conspiracy that's been going on since the dawn of
>> photography.
>
> You could make a square lens, but then you would need to take round
> photos and that would be a pain.
>

Even worse when considering there are no round paper printers with round
papers, round photo processors or even curved & rounded monitors. Maybe
our eyes are round balls for a reason.

How about that for a Pi in your eye?

(Pi = 3.14159.....)
Pun intended.
--
SneakyP
To email me, you know what to do.

From: DanP on 17 Jul 2010 03:11
On Jul 17, 5:34 am, SneakyP <48umof...(a)WHITELISTONLYsneakemail.com>
wrote:
> Scott W <biph...(a)hotmail.com> wrote in news:276670d7-07e3-4865-9d39-
> ee5541e7d...(a)u36g2000prg.googlegroups.com:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Jul 15, 2:42 am, "whisky-dave" <whisky-d...(a)final.front.ear> wrote:
> >> "Scotius" <yodas...(a)mnsi.net> wrote in message
>
> >>news:fsms369k0lm01f67vj3at5odi4pmhljdh7(a)4ax.com...
>
> >> > Why is it that camera lenses are round, but pictures are
> >> > square? Hmmm? Tell me that ya' smarteys!
>
> >> It's because trees are round which is what we use to make paper,
> >> but the paper we print them on is square (or rectangle).
> >> It's a  government conspiracy that's been going on since the dawn of
> >> photography.
>
> > You could make a square lens, but then you would need to take round
> > photos and that would be a pain.
>
> Even worse when considering there are no round paper printers with round
> papers, round photo processors or even curved & rounded monitors.   Maybe
> our eyes are round balls for a reason.  
>

You are on to something here, a curved sensor (spherical) will sort
out the distortions at wide angles.

DanP
From: Peter on 17 Jul 2010 20:57
"SneakyP" <48umofa02(a)WHITELISTONLYsneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9DB7EEE51904248umofa02sneakemailc(a)127.0.0.1...
> Scott W <biphoto(a)hotmail.com> wrote in news:276670d7-07e3-4865-9d39-
> ee5541e7db3b(a)u36g2000prg.googlegroups.com:
>
>> On Jul 15, 2:42 am, "whisky-dave" <whisky-d...(a)final.front.ear> wrote:
>>> "Scotius" <yodas...(a)mnsi.net> wrote in message
>>>
>>> news:fsms369k0lm01f67vj3at5odi4pmhljdh7(a)4ax.com...
>>>
>>> > Why is it that camera lenses are round, but pictures are
>>> > square? Hmmm? Tell me that ya' smarteys!
>>>
>>> It's because trees are round which is what we use to make paper,
>>> but the paper we print them on is square (or rectangle).
>>> It's a government conspiracy that's been going on since the dawn of
>>> photography.
>>
>> You could make a square lens, but then you would need to take round
>> photos and that would be a pain.
>>
>
> Even worse when considering there are no round paper printers with round
> papers, round photo processors or even curved & rounded monitors. Maybe
> our eyes are round balls for a reason.
>
> How about that for a Pi in your eye?
>
> (Pi = 3.14159.....)
> Pun intended.


Ask Sir Conference

--
Peter

From: Wolfgang Weisselberg on 17 Jul 2010 17:08
SneakyP <48umofa02(a)WHITELISTONLYsneakemail.com> wrote:

> Even worse when considering there are no round paper printers with round
> papers, round photo processors or even curved & rounded monitors.

Well, there used to be a number of circular ... monitors[1].
Even the usable area of a circular sensor glass is used to
describe the chip sizes of P&S cameras today ...

-Wolfgang

[1] Radar screens, for example.
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