What aspect ratio do you shoot in?


Etna-sama

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All cameras from compact PnS to prosumer compacts and DSLRs/mirrorless have options to change the aspect ratio of images captured. What do you usually use?

I typically select 16:9 even though it has a lower resolution. Reason being all computer and phone displays nowadays are 16:9 or 16:10, and shooting in 4:3 or 3:2 usually results in the image getting chopped off at certain parts of the screen unless it's heavily resized to like 1024x768 (which even then causes problems for laptops with 1366x768 displays).

What about you?
 

i don't care about whether it fits my screen. i care more about how it's displayed on websites.
 

I typically select 16:9 even though it has a lower resolution.
It's not a lower resolution, but a reduced image size. Resolution is given by the sensor and pixel size.
Use the entire sensor and crop later in post-processing to whatever fits the purpose, message, image, target media ...
 

usually shoot as per normal. sometimes I may shoot 1:1 for practice purpose .
 

I shoot whatever the default aspect ratio is, but compose for the end goal. Resolution doesn't matter. They are all high res enough.
 

Depends on what the end product required is.