Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/10

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Subject: [Leica] Re: "Ideal format?"
From: Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 14:28:59 -0500

No, actually I want to be king.



On Sunday, February 10, 2002, at 02:59 AM, Henry Ting wrote:

>
> 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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