Dear Uncle Dick, My whole Plate camera, an old kodak model, is 6 1/2 x 8 1/2, a great size, as the camera is a whole lot lighter and uses smaller lenses than 10x8, though film is hard to get. best wishes, Saffron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stein" <rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 2:49 PM Subject: [pure-silver] Print size advice. > 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. > > Uncle Dick > ============================================================================ ================================= > 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. > ============================================================================================================= 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.