As I said

The extending Photoshop AI, changing a frame into a larger 6x6 Hasselblad style frame - worst best, if there are no sharp details at the borders of the original image. That way, you can beautifully emulate that 6x6 style with help of Photoshop AI.

I just love the look and feel - as it really does make it look like an analog image. It reminds me of using the Mamiya C330s camera (which too creates 6x6 negatives). It was my workhorse mediumformat camera during many years, especially outdoors.

Due to its non-vibrating central shutter, the camera was highly usable outdoors even at medium slow shutter speeds! In my case the boundary was around 1/30 if i kept it very, very still. A longer shutter speed than 1/30 sec, required some form of support.

Boy did i use the Mamiya C330s camera often... like really super mega all-the-time ! I had a little leather backpack pouch, in which carried it with me everywhere I went.

Awesome times !

Alternative 6x6

Is simply to use a camera, in this case a GFX mediumformat camera - and use the 6x6 setting. It creates a square format right away (masked in RAW, final in JPG) - without any use of AI later on the computer. Both ways work to emulate the classic analog 6x6 format

The sad aspect of digital photography

is that in the future, humanity will most likely not have much photographic material left - as most of it disintegrated, especially in bad/rough/war times - not much will survive the tooth of time. So fleeting as digital stuff really is... when you think about it a notch deeper.

We had an large advantage with physical negatives... as many are still preserved today - which now shows us the past 150 years of humanity. Many traces left behind documented; the habits of people, the arts, the fashion, the looks of people, documentations, how buildings and houses were built, peeking into the private mirrors of peoples lives, and so on.

I do find all that very interesting - and assume, that with age, such things do matter more / become more interesting.

I doubt this will be the case with digital files. Think like this: how many people have left digital images on their phones from 2005 or 2010 ? Lost phone. No backup. Lost backup.

While it is all super fun and everything, to go digital - but not much will be preserved for the future (the people's past).

I find that sad.