Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]About 95% of my Leica neg's get the full frame treatment. Beseler has a full frame carrier for their 23C's and 45 enlargers. And you can just file out your carrier for the rough black border. Now if only I had a Focomat with that masking carrier. Chris Williams - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Hillman" <dave@hillmanimages.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 9:42 AM Subject: [Leica] Fresh Meat > Hi, > > A couple of weeks ago, I bought a used Leica M, made a WEB site for > photography, bought a scanner, did some tests. started a paw - only one > image > for now but have material for past 4 weeks, have been printing some 8 x > 10s > on an inkjet printer, bought another book on PhotoShop, made a portfolio > of > old images from Thai-Cambodia border, joined LUG, and have been spending > > hours digging through boxes in the garage and classifying slides and > negatives going back to high school in the 50's. > > With that for an introduction, my question has to do with cropping. The > guy > at Keeble & Shuchat who sold me the Leica showed me some nice BW prints > from > his trip to Cuba - all of which are full frame. I've hardly ever > printed > pictures full frame. 8 x 10 speed easels didn't seem to match 35x24 mm > or 2 > 1/4 square negatives years ago. But then I've almost never cropped any > slides. (Let's see. Make a 'L' with thumb and forefinger and hold in > front > of the projector to get rid of that annoyance on the lower left of this > next > picture...). > > Habitually, do you crop images when printing them? > > Dave Hillman > http://www.hillmanimages.com/bw/index.html >