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RE: OT - U.S vs. Europe paper sizes

2004-09-20 by Tim Atherton

>Many sizes, depending on the image shape, but not the in my view
>long A sizes. While it was my choice when I printed 35mm in the
>past (as a student).  But that was more a cost aspect, it filled
>the size well with small margins.  With wider margins around the
>image the A sizes become problematic, the image shape gets even
>longer than the 35 mm (or close to  6x9) aspect ratio is. And I'm
>not doing panoramas (yet) so it isn't my choice.... etc

only so if you insist on playing with miniature cameras:-) I'm glad photo
paper still comes in sensible sizes that relate to 4x5 and 8x10 (but that
inkjet paper sure is a pain then - you waste a heck of a lot of 13x19
paper...)

I'm still sad we got rid of full-plate and mammoth-plate sizes though....


tim

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