Just moving on from the thread about cropping (or not) and printing on 12X8 (or not)...
One question that pops up from time to time is this: with the aspect ratio of the 35mm frame, why is the 'standard' print aspect ratio the way it is on a 'standard' 10X8 print? Is this because (as I suspect) the print size of 10X8 harks back to the days when photographs were contact-printed straight from a 10X8 glass neg? Then why, when 35 mm was introduced, did not a suitable 'standard' print size comparable with the aspect ratio if the 35mm frame also come into being? IMO the 10X8 print size means little to me. The aspect ratio of my finished print is entirely dependent on the crop I choose during the [now] Photoshop editing process, or [then] the enlarging process. I have always cropped where I consider appropriate. The finished item is the print - nothing else matters. Cheers, Cotty ____________________________________ Oh, swipe me! He paints with light! http://www.macads.co.uk/snaps/ ____________________________________ Free UK Macintosh Classified Ads at http://www.macads.co.uk/ ____________________________________
