Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think the real question is why are paper sizes inflexible? 35mm never fit on an 8X10 sheet. What's the most popular film size in the world? What sense does it make to print the most popular film size, 35mm, on odd sized paper? 4X6? Where did that come from. Minilabs are a recent enough that they could have chosen to print 35mm full frame. Has Kodak, the company that brings us different film formats every five or ten years, been asleep at helm? Or is there something sinister going on? Allan On Saturday, February 9, 2002, at 10:07 PM, Phil Stiles wrote: > In medium format, Fuji rangefinders give one a choice of 6X9 or 6X7. The > 6X7 prints on standard 8X10 or 11X14 enlarging paper. While the > so-called "letterbox" format of standard 35mm is well established, I've > often wondered why some manufacturer doesn't produce the 6X7 ratio > negative for 35mm. One would get quite a few more shots on a "36 > exposure" roll (can someone do the math?) and wouldn't loose the ends of > the frame when printing to 4X6 at the one hour lab. Probably half my > prints are cropped out of the full frame negative. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html