[pure-silver] Re: Print size advice.

--- 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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