Golden ratio grid and golden spirals for your GR’s grid lines
Out of the box, a GR offers 3×3 and 4×4 grid lines. The new Golden ratio guides feature adds five more to the camera’s own Grid Style menu: a golden ratio grid, and a golden spiral with its centre lower right, lower left, upper right or upper left. You can add it on its own on the custom firmware page.
What’s new
- Golden Ratio: two lines each way at 0.382 and 0.618 of the frame, a little closer to the centre than 3×3.
- Golden spirals with their squares, centre lower right, lower left, upper right or upper left: put your subject where the spiral ends.
- The guides follow the current aspect ratio and stay inside the photo: at 3:2, 4:3, 16:9, 5:4 and 7:6 the spiral is stretched to the whole photo; at 1:1 and 65:24 it sits in a centred golden rectangle.
- They show while shooting only; playback still shows 3×3, and your photos are not changed.
- Your choice is kept when you switch off, and each USER mode keeps its own.
The golden ratio grid
Put people on the vertical lines, and the foot of a wall or the horizon on the horizontal ones.
Pick it in the camera menu
Turn the grid lines on, then choose in Grid Style; 3×3 and 4×4 stay where they were.
Getting started
- Open the firmware store, add Golden ratio guides on its own (More aspect ratios is not needed), generate a new firmware and install it as before.
- In the camera menu, turn the grid lines on, then choose Golden Ratio or one of the spirals in Grid Style.
Good to know
- Supports GR IIIx 1.60 / 1.70 and GR III 2.10 / 2.20; confirmed on a GR IIIx with 1.70. Not yet tested on a GR III.
- After flashing back to the stock firmware, the grid shows 3×3.
- Installing unofficial firmware carries risk: keep the stock firmware so you can go back.
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