> Truly, lots of people are blind to wrong image ratios. Some years ago the 
> photos in my university's facebook had been stretched horizontally, 
> turning hundreds of students into flattened toads. Nobody found that odd. 
> Recently, I saw a framed print of a painting where the image had been 
> squeezed because the original image's ratio was wider than the frame's 
> ratio. Why bother to crop the image or find the right frame? Making movies 
> in widescreen is a real waste: filmmakers could film everything in 1.37:1 
> as in the old times, stretch them to 2.39:1 and few people would notice.

I think it's because we are used to often seeing things at an angle during 
everyday life, so our brain is quite good at automatically correcting aspect 
ratios for us.

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