Ikea carries a lot of odd sizes over here too. The square ones are pretty much the same, I guess, but it would be interesting to know if the rectangular ones are "adapted" to american paper formats.
Jostein 2009/8/18 Igor Roshchin <s...@komkon.org>: > > Yesterday, I had a chance of looking at frames (for photos and pictures) > being sold at Ikea. > While I found a few that were of more standard sizes (4"x6", 5"x7", > 6"x6", 8"x10"), I saw quite a few of very unusual sizes, e.g. > 8-1/2" - 11" (or 11-1/2" ?), 9"x9", 11"x19", etc. > > Usually, at stores like Aaron Brothers, Michaels, - they carry only > the "most standard" sizes (especially Michaels), so that even 8"x12" is > hard to find. > The only logical explanation that I could think of in the case of Ikea > was that they also have pictures they sell, and they match those > sizes, - so they don't want you to use these frames for anything else... > But I am still puzzled - why? > > Any ideas? > > Igor > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
