Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Format units question
From: Mary & Stan Kephart <kephartol@att.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 98 11:38:10 -0500
 
August 13, 1998

Christoph asked:

>When people in the US talk about eg. 8x10 or 16x20 pictures, what is the base
>unit? Is it inch or cm? 
>I just wondered because it sometimes sounds as if you are doing almost all of
>your work in these sizes which seems to me very big if it is inches.


The answer is inches--and that's the whole point!--to have 35mm negs so 
good, that they can be so enlarged and still look great!

Mary