[pure-silver] Re: [pure-silver] Re: Print size advice.

  • From: <*@photosavage.com>
  • To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:34:01 +0200

It's my understanding that whole plate (1/1) always measures a standard
8.5"x6.5". Black & white photographic paper is still available in this
size from Agfa and Ilford(at least for the present).

I.

Nick Zentena <zentena@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 22.10.2004, 15:52:12:
> 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
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