1/2 frame prints
Dec 19, 2022 19:20:22 #
What size prints do you get when you get developed 1/2 frame 35mm film?
Dec 19, 2022 19:35:33 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
colinc1 wrote:
What size prints do you get when you get developed 1/2 frame 35mm film?
Any size you want. They just enlarge the negative to match your desired print.
Dec 19, 2022 20:05:24 #
colinc1 wrote:
What size prints do you get when you get developed 1/2 frame 35mm film?
Typically you’ll get 4x6 prints, because that is the paper size used by many processors. But they may have about a 4x5.25 image area and a large border if they print the full frame. If they try to fill the full paper size they’ll crop a little off the width.
Dec 20, 2022 08:03:25 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
colinc1 wrote:
What size prints do you get when you get developed 1/2 frame 35mm film?
You get the same size prints as you would get by using the whole 35mm frame. 4X5, 8X10, 16X20, etc. etc. etc.
You just have less of the image to enlarge, so you might have more noise in these prints than you would have had if you would have used the whole image. I generally do not like to crop to using a 1/2 of the negative.
Dec 20, 2022 14:30:20 #
colinc1 wrote:
What size prints do you get when you get developed 1/2 frame 35mm film?
The image is nominally 24mm x 18mm on film, which is a 4:3 aspect ratio. Any multiple of that won't crop anything. (3x4, 6x8, 9x12, 12x16, etc.)
4:3 is known as the format that crops least when matching popular frame sizes.
Dec 20, 2022 20:32:46 #
photoman022
Loc: Manchester CT USA
Eons ago I used a half-frame camera and the color photos I had processed were standard size for the company that processed the film and photos. I don't think they worried about aspect ratios back then. When I processed my own black and white I could (and did) enlarge to 8x10.
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