A Quick Guide To Aspect Ratios

These days technology keeps emerging and it's difficult to catch up. When we are buying TV sets and print photos ... , we can get bewildered by some many numbers in aspects ratios. So here is a quick guide.

4:3 is the ratio for most older TV sets and computer screen

16:9 is the HDTV and the widescreen computer screen

But if you are send your photos for printing. 4R is usually the standard - the aspect ratio is 3:2 , more commonly seen as 6 x 4 (in cm)

Movie Theatre displays are slightly different. Below is a quick guide:


The Golden Ratio by the way is :