Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Fresh Meat
From: "onetreehillclw" <onetreehillclw@compaq.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:03:10 -0500
References: <3B56F1D3.AEFC364C@hillmanimages.com>

About 95% of my Leica neg's get the full frame treatment. Beseler has a full
frame carrier for their 23C's and 45 enlargers. And you can just file out
your carrier for the rough black border. Now if only I had a Focomat with
that masking carrier.

Chris Williams

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Hillman" <dave@hillmanimages.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 9:42 AM
Subject: [Leica] Fresh Meat


> Hi,
>
> A couple of weeks ago, I bought a used Leica M, made a WEB site for
> photography, bought a scanner, did some tests. started a paw - only one
> image
> for now but have material for past 4 weeks, have been printing some 8 x
> 10s
> on an inkjet printer, bought another book on PhotoShop, made a portfolio
> of
> old images from Thai-Cambodia border, joined LUG, and have been spending
>
> hours digging through boxes in the garage and classifying slides and
> negatives going back to high school in the 50's.
>
> With that for an introduction, my question has to do with cropping. The
> guy
> at Keeble & Shuchat who sold me the Leica showed me some nice BW prints
> from
> his trip to Cuba - all of which are full frame.  I've hardly ever
> printed
> pictures full frame. 8 x 10 speed easels didn't seem to match 35x24 mm
> or 2
> 1/4 square negatives years ago. But then I've almost never cropped any
> slides. (Let's see.  Make a 'L' with thumb and forefinger and hold in
> front
> of the projector to get rid of that annoyance on the lower left of this
> next
> picture...).
>
> Habitually, do you crop images when printing them?
>
> Dave Hillman
> http://www.hillmanimages.com/bw/index.html
>

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