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The golden ratio and Flickr

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 at 20:51 • Chyetanya Kunte • Filed under Design, Wishful Thinking

When most beautiful things in this world—including famous works of art—follow the golden ratio, I wonder why our cameras don’t.1 Somebody please kick the idiot out of me and tell me why camera makers adopt an unsexy ratio like the 4:3.

I bet the supreme geeks at Flickr didn’t think of this either—or else they’d have provided us with a Golden ratio option among “All sizes”. Stewart, Caterina, how about it?

  1. At least by default. []
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