Digital BW, The Print

On 18 Sep 2004 at 20:54, Bob Frost wrote:

> Tom,
> 
> The whole world, apart from USA and Canada, uses the ISO paper sizes, not 
> just UK and Europe.

Actually you can get metric size paper in Canada, even metric size photo paper, it's 
not as common as the imperial sizes, but it is available.  When you consider the 
silver print sizes, they run from 3.5x5,  5x7, 8x10, 11x14, 16x20 are based on the 
older view camera sizes, 4x5 was added later, I think by photographers who wanted 
to avoid having more paper sizes, so they took a sheet of 8x10 and cut it into 4 
smaller prints.  4x6 was invented much more recently, because the ratio fit 35mm 
better.  I find it weird though that they don't make the inkjet photo paper in silver 
print sizes, it would make more sense......

W