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> 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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