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Subject: [Leica] The myths of crop factor
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 22:53:14 -0500

They cut the heads out and just print the faces.


On 1/5/15 10:30 PM, "Montie Talbert" <montoid at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Bingo.
> 
> Montie
> 
> Sonny Carter wrote:
>>> Yes, and the first thing the picture editor did when he got that 
>>> uncropped
> print was to mark it for cropping and send it to be made into a cut.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> People always spoke of the sanctity of never cropping their pictures.
>> People
>> in Magnum even did that. But I suspect it was all about the precious thin
>> black borders. A print in the stack with no black border stood out as 
>> weak.
> 
> 
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