Re: Huge price differences for photo equipment (Was" polarizer" before)

[graywolf]

The standard snapshot "N size" print for many decades was 3-1/2x4-1/2 inchs 
printed on 3-1/2 inch rolls. Then when 35mm became the standard (late 60's early 
70's?) they increased that to 3-1/2x5 to match the 35mm negative. Then the new 
minilabs started using 6" rolls and offering 4x6. Now that has become standard.

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Caveman wrote:
Ah. The Leica experts. They first reduced film format to match it to 4x6 
prints then spent a fortune to develop expensive lenses that could give 
you some larger prints from that format.

Raimo K wrote:
The above according to Leica expert G�nther Osterloh (in the book 
Angewandte
Leica-Technik).


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graywolf
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