Re: [Leica] Negative size

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

They are all the same size!
I have a full frame carrier for my Beseler 23c, and it allows a
'verification border' of black to be printed around the whole negative
image- it is supposed to show your acumen at composing in the viewfinder!
Since the percentage of the viewfinder image to negative image differes from
camera to camera, it is not a very exact way to compose! I rarely used mine,
however, when I did, rest assured that negatives from a telephoto, normal,
or wide angled lens were all the same size- primarily because the frame
opening at the film plain acts as a mask, and unless his camera is very
different from mine, it don't change a bit! :\
Cheers,
Dan'l
dwpost@msn.com
- -----Original Message-----
From: George Huczek <ghuczek@sk.sympatico.ca>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 8:36 AM
Subject: [Leica] Negative size

>Every once in a while I come across something that I read that takes me by
>surprise.  A case in point occurred yesterday.  I was reading David
>Vestal's "The Craft of Photography", one of Mike Johnson's recommended top
>10 which is worth reading.  The edition I have is quite old (1975), written
>at a time when David was still using an M2, a Miranda sensorex, and a MF
>Rolleicord.
>   He is writing about enlarging equipment, discussing the way to file down
>a negative carrier to print full frame.  He says,
>
>"A glassless carrier can be carefully filed down so the opening is slightly
>larger than your largest negatives (the ones made with wide angle lenses)."
> p 123
>
>   I was always under the impression that negatives in 35mm were all the
>same size, based on the size of the film gate in the camera.  I have never
>noticed that negatives made with wide angle lenses are slightly larger than
>those made with other lenses.  Can anyone verify that negatives made with
>wide angle lenses are, in fact, slightly larger?  It just doesn't sound
>right to me, so I thought I would ask to see if anyone knows whether or not
>this is true.
>
>-GH