[pure-silver] Re: Print size advice.
- From: Charlie Thorsten <charlie_thorsten@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:23:45 -0700 (PDT)
--- Stein <rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> Uncle Dick
Well 6.5 x 8.5" used to be a common film
size for glass plates in the 1920's. This
is what Ansel used for "Monolith, the Face
of Half Dome" in 1927.
-Charlie
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