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View Poll Results: What is your most common/frequent print size that you produce ? | |||
3.5 x 5.5 | 0 | 0% | |
4 x5 | 0 | 0% | |
4 x 6 | 1 | 3.13% | |
5 x 7 | 4 | 12.50% | |
10 x 8 | 13 | 40.63% | |
9.5 x 12 | 4 | 12.50% | |
A4 | 1 | 3.13% | |
11 x 14 | 4 | 12.50% | |
12 x 16 | 2 | 6.25% | |
16 x 20 | 1 | 3.13% | |
20 x 24 | 0 | 0% | |
Other | 2 | 6.25% | |
Voters: 32. You may not vote on this poll |
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I voted "Other".
My go-to format these days is 7x9.5" or 18x24cm. Mainly because I shoot a lot of 35mm film and 35mm fits that size very well. Sometimes I crop them in a little and then print on 8x10. Or much smaller, like 5x7" as I was gifted a lot of paper in that size. The biggest size I can currently print is 10x12" but that happens very rarely. I think I made only 4 or 5 prints of that size since I've started about 1.5-2 years ago. |
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Print or paper
I may be wrong but I wondered are people talking print size or paper size
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Personally, I prefer to print full neg. and also for my prints to have generous borders +/- 4cms on 40x50cm paper.
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Concerning some restrictions in my last darkroom I printed 12x16" standards from 4x5"/5x7" negatives.
I make contact prints from 12x16" incamera-negatives, too. In my actual darkroom I will print 16x20" and 20x24" as my standards next. But I want to print some 70x100cm prints as non standard, too. I am not interested suiting something. First I fill my negatives with light, then I project my negative to the easel; here I have to choose the best excerpt. So it's just the print who will ask for the paper's format. Cutting the paper from a roll makes this step easier, too. From August on I will start with alternative/ancient processes which probably will end in 16x20" and 20x24" standard sizes. |
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I voted 9.5 x 12 but also print a lot of 8 x 10 I find it difficult to print anything under these sizes. During lock down I started printing 10 x 14 a size a may use more often
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Print size
I was in a postal circle which was restricted to 12 sq. inch print area. That was fun, using a longer focal length enlarger lens to get enlarger height & longer exposure times so as to allow dodging & burning. I found it much more difficult to be precise than on larger prints. But it was economical.
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But 12 sq inches, now that really is getting small, at about 4" x 3" prints! I must try to see how small I can make a print before I consider it just a little too small... Terry S |
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Thanks to everyone who participated.
I'm surprised that we are printing in larger sizes than I was expecting. I was expecting 80% to be 10x8. It gives me sympathy for Ilford and Co who have to handle quite so many differing paper sizes. Martin |
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