Shooting square format: My bridge camera, Canon SX40, offered square format in its menue options. I'm now using a Nikon D610 and loving it. Is there any way to shoot square in the...

Pilot 6 Loc: Eugene, OR

My bridge camera, Canon SX40, offered square format in its menue options. I'm now using a Nikon D610 and loving it. Is there any way to shoot square in the D610? In any Nikon DSLR? Any DSLR?
I use the outer lines on the VF grid in framing a square shot and it's difficult not to be distracted by the stuff I intend to remove in PP.
Rollie---Hassy---Mamamamaya---you're missed!
Your thoughts are most welcome.
bob

oldtigger Loc: Roanoke Virginia-USA

Pilot 6 wrote:

My bridge camera, Canon SX40, offered square format in its menue options. I'm now using a Nikon D610 and loving it. Is there any way to shoot square in the D610? In any Nikon DSLR? Any DSLR?
I use the outer lines on the VF grid in framing a square shot and it's difficult not to be distracted by the stuff I intend to remove in PP.
Rollie---Hassy---Mamamamaya---you're missed!
Your thoughts are most welcome.
bob

If you can find one, i think the Brownie Hawkeye shot square pictures.
Or you could put black duct tape on the ends of your 610 sensor.
People do not view the world as square.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

While the square format can be useful in photography most humans do not see the world in square format. Yes I have used all of the cameras you mentioned and do miss my Hasselblads.

Dennis

MMC Loc: Brooklyn NY

Square format is cropped format. If you need it you can receive it in PP cropping your picture.

Pilot 6 wrote:

My bridge camera, Canon SX40, offered square format in its menue options. I'm now using a Nikon D610 and loving it. Is there any way to shoot square in the D610? In any Nikon DSLR? Any DSLR?
I use the outer lines on the VF grid in framing a square shot and it's difficult not to be distracted by the stuff I intend to remove in PP.
Rollie---Hassy---Mamamamaya---you're missed!
Your thoughts are most welcome.
bob

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Pilot 6 wrote:

My bridge camera, Canon SX40, offered square format in its menue options.
I'm now using a Nikon D610 and loving it.
Is there any way to shoot square in the D610?
In any Nikon DSLR?
Any DSLR?
.......
bob

While technically not a DSLR, The Fuji XT-1 has a square option as does the XE-1, 2 and some of the other X series cameras.

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

oldtigger wrote:

If you can find one, i think the Brownie Hawkeye shot square pictures.
Or you could put black duct tape on the ends of your 610 sensor.
People do not view the world as square.

Many people today are simply not used to seeing photos in square format. But there is no reason that square format cannot be aesthetically pleasing. For example, LP album cover art has been presented primarily in square format for decades; hardly anyone complained.

oldtigger Loc: Roanoke Virginia-USA

rook2c4 wrote:

Many people today are simply not used to seeing photos in square format. But there is no reason that square format cannot be aesthetically pleasing. For example, LP album cover art has been presented primarily in square format for decades; hardly anyone complained.

if you go to a museum, the exhibits are rectangular, same with art gallerys. printing paper, books, and the products on the store shelves,
People don't like square.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

This Pentax medium format camera shoots very close to a square format, 33mm x 44mm.

http://www.crutchfield.com/p_815645D/PENTAX-645D-no-lens-included.html?tp=263&awkw=75621378145&awat=pla&awnw=g&awcr=47439329905&awdv=c

moonhawk Loc: Land of Enchantment

I like square for some of my stuff--whatever creates the most pleasing composition.

slocumeddie Loc: Inside your head, again

oldtigger wrote:

People do not view the world as square.

My field of vision is roughly circular(actually a horizontal oval).

It is not a square or rectangle................................

Pablo8 Loc: Nottingham UK.

Most lens configerations will give a circular image, so rectangle...square..are all cropped from the circle. A square will produce the least amount of cropping from a circular original.That is physics, not 'pie-in-the-sky'.

oldtigger Loc: Roanoke Virginia-USA

slocumeddie wrote:

My field of vision is roughly circular(actually a horizontal oval).....It is not a square or rectangle........

you might find this of interest:

http://hubel.med.harvard.edu/book/b9.htm

OviedoPhotos

Try square cropping in post processing. It will work. Square printer paper is not easy to find though, so you'll have to cut it down.

Collie lover Loc: St. Louis, MO

Pilot 6 wrote:

My bridge camera, Canon SX40, offered square format in its menue options. I'm now using a Nikon D610 and loving it. Is there any way to shoot square in the D610? In any Nikon DSLR? Any DSLR?
I use the outer lines on the VF grid in framing a square shot and it's difficult not to be distracted by the stuff I intend to remove in PP.
Rollie---Hassy---Mamamamaya---you're missed!
Your thoughts are most welcome.
bob

It would be simple enough to crop a picture into a square.

steve03 Loc: long Lsland

oldtigger wrote:

If you can find one, i think the Brownie Hawkeye shot square pictures.
Or you could put black duct tape on the ends of your 610 sensor.
People do not view the world as square.

a lot of people shoot vertical. We don't see the world vertical unless when you look at something you turn your head sideways?