[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> So I do see a reason for 100% (or 98%) finders. And even 92% finder is much
> more than you get from standard 8x10" prints - that's 4:5 while neg is 2:3
> ratio!!!
Heh. I recently had an 8x10 print I'd ordered come back from the
lab 8x12 with the rather apologetic explanation that the printer
couldn't bring himself to crop it, but that if I was _really_sure_
I wanted it cropped, they'd let me use their paper cutter. When
I looked at the 8x12, I realized how much more I liked it than the
cropping I'd first asked for, so it's on my wall now. At some
point I'll ask them to print it full-frame on 8x10 paper (with
white borders on the long edges) so I can put it in my 8x10
show-off binder -- the only disadvantage of the 8x12 format.
I've noticed that many places don't charge any more for an 8x12
than they do for 8x10, and the few that do charge more don't
charge _much_ more.
(Sometimes the lab should just do what I ask them to. Other
times, they should point out to me something I'm being stupid
about. This time, the printer was right in a big way. It's
a shot of a knight who has just been struck by a lance in a
full-contact competitive joust, rocked back in his saddle by
the blow. There's just no good way to crop it to 8x10. It
would _work_ as an 8x8, cutting off the horse's head entirely,
but it's so much more powerful in it's full 2:3 glory (and would
have been even better if I'd been able to catch all of the
horse's nose in the frame when I shot it). Of course, I also
had to thank the friend who'd been watching the jousting all
season and told me where to stand to get good angles.)
-- Glenn
PS: Yes, jousting is in fact the official State Sport of
Maryland, but that's _ring_ jousting (jousting at targets,
not at each other). This was at the Maryland Renaissance
Festival.
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