Will still digital cameras ever move away from current 3:2 frame proportions in favor of 16:9?
As long as people will continue to want prints made from digital photos, I don’t think a 16:9 standard will become widely popular. While widescreen is a powerful and evocotive format for film, as it tends make the viewer feel as though he’s part of the world created by the director, photographic prints most often do not benefit from the added horizontal space (landscape photography being, perhaps, one exception). That said, there are cameras and film formats that are available today which will allow a widescreen photo, albeit, usually faked in the case of cameras with sliding plastic bars above and below the camera lens. Kodak’s Advanced Photo System (APS) format allows a user to select one of three formats, one of which was widescreen.
