Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/20

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Subject: [Leica] Re: A4
From: "Tim Spragens" <t.spragens@cityweb.de>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:01:50 +0100

> What i wanna know is why is not the A4 paper 200x300 metric?
> Nice round numbers, same ratio as our film!
> Is it like a 2x4 pine stud? (had to clarify that)
> 
> Mark :-) Rabiner
> 
It's a rationalized golden rectangle. Double it (A3), or halve it (A5), 
and you've got very nearly the the same aspect ratio. Looks better 
with full-frame 35mm than Letter size does as well.

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Tim Spragens
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