On October 22, 2004 09:49 am, Stein wrote: > Dear Friends, > I am contemplating the easel again. It happens as you get older.... > > I have been reading about historic print sizes and among the more > exotic " Boudoir " and " Victoria " ones is the good old prosaic Whole > Plate. But my sources list Whole Plate as either: > > 1. 6" x 8" > > 2. 6.5" x 8.5" > > 3. 6.75" x 8.75" > > And then they chop it into Half Plate, Quarter Plate, etc in various > ways. > > Can anyone state authoritatively what the size of the the real Whole > Plate is? Thanks in advance - I'm planning the 2005 calendar. Are those the size of the film? The exposed area? Was whole plate ever an Ansi standard? If not couldn't the exposed area vary with who ever made the holder? Nick ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.