Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:20 AM 22-06-98 -0600, GH wrote: [SNIP] >"A glassless carrier can be carefully filed down so the opening is slightly >larger than your largest negatives (the ones made with wide angle lenses)." > p 123 > > I was always under the impression that negatives in 35mm were all the >same size, based on the size of the film gate in the camera. I have never >noticed that negatives made with wide angle lenses are slightly larger than >those made with other lenses. Can anyone verify that negatives made with >wide angle lenses are, in fact, slightly larger? It just doesn't sound >right to me, so I thought I would ask to see if anyone knows whether or not >this is true. I don't think he is implying that some 35mm negatives are larger than others. It is just that most glassless negative carriers are slightlty smaller than the 35mm negative, so that if you want to be able to print a black edge around the image, you must enlarge the carrier opening. Dan C.