Re: 4x6? 5x7? 8x10?

Robert A. Baron (mailto:rabaron@PIPELINE.COM)
Fri, 6 Jun 1997 00:29:32 -0400

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Date:         Fri, 6 Jun 1997 00:29:32 -0400
From: "Robert A. Baron" <mailto:rabaron@PIPELINE.COM>
Subject:      Re: 4x6? 5x7? 8x10?
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At 08:39 AM 6/6/97 +1000, J Brasher wrote:
>Better to scan from the negative - better still to scan from 4x5" negs, but
>35m still quite good. Jennifer

Curious how things change. In my student days, 35mm negs were considered unpublishable, 4x5 were okay for publications and 8x10 (and larger: 16x20s) were considered reference prints. When you bought an 8x10 print from a museum, more likely than not, it was a contact print.

R.Baron mailto:rabaron@pipeline.com