Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Never shot 6x6 so not sure, but what's the percentage of people leaving 6x6 as square vs. crop when printing? If most people crop, then may be they inherently don't see that 6x6 as 6x6. On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Mark Rabiner<mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > One thing I will say about 6x7 though; at least in my opinion. > As slides on the light table or contact sheets they appear 50 percent > larger > than 6x6's. For some rare optical phenomenon reason. > A sheet of 6x6's you really feel like you need a loupe to really see them > A sheet of 6x7's that feeling is minimal. You can just really see them. > They > just jump out at you. > If there is a 6x6 on the light table too no one is going to bother looking > at it. It becomes trivial in comparison. > This to me the reason why Herb and Annie* went from 6x6 to 6x7. > Other than I'm sure wanting nothing to do with that embarrassing old Zeiss > hassy glass. -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963