Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Format units question
From: dmm@bronze.lcs.mit.edu (Andrew M. Moore)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:37:09 -0400 (EDT)
 
>> When people in the US talk about eg. 8x10 or 16x20 pictures, what is the 
>> base unit? Is it inch or cm?  I just wondered because it sometimes sounds 
>> as if you are doing almost all of your work in these sizes which seems to
>> me very big if it is inches.

> It is inches Christoph.

Of course, those numbers usually (but not always) refer to the print
size, not the negative size, in case there was any confusion!