Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: "Ideal format?"
From: Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 23:59:21 -0800 (PST)

I see, you want all the paper mills, copying machines,
stationary print shops, fax machines, etc etc etc to
change to adapt to the 35mm format. Hmmmm

- --- Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net> wrote:
> 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.
> 
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