What Size??

silvercleave · Post by **silvercleave** » Fri 06 Mar, 2009 12:23 pm

Simple question, what size are standard photos? and what size are standard size RMF's

Driving me nuts, every photo seems to be a different size, some are 4" x 6" - 5" x 7" then you get inbetween sizes in one direction only, 4.5" x 6".

Any suggestions welcome

Moglet · Post by **Moglet** » Fri 06 Mar, 2009 3:26 pm

Most common traditional sizes are (to the best of my knowledge) 6x4, 7x5, 8x6, 9x7, 10x8.

Roboframer · Post by **Roboframer** » Fri 06 Mar, 2009 7:23 pm

Sometimes a RMF will have "40x30cm (16"x12")" written on it - they just round up to the nearest inch, or sometimes the 16x12 bit will be right and the metric out.

penfold · Post by **penfold** » Fri 06 Mar, 2009 8:34 pm

Theres no one standard size for photos, especially when you bring digital photos in to the equation!

Traditionally, photo frames have been made to a set of common sizes that can range from 3.5x5 ins throught 4x6, 5x7, 6x8 (see a pattern here?) Nowadays we also see "metric" sizes like 30x40, 40x50 etc These also are standard sizes and thats before we get to the "A" sizes (A4 etc)

Most photos that folks get printed at the local snappy snaps or colourama type places will probably be 6x4 inches.

Hope that helps

Moglet · Post by **Moglet** » Fri 06 Mar, 2009 9:42 pm

Welcome to the Forum, Penfold!

kev@frames · Post by **kev@frames** » Sat 07 Mar, 2009 4:28 pm

Hi Penfold
this might be a bit of help to start with:

http://www.frames.uk.com/standard_mount_photo_sizes.htm

penfold · Post by **penfold** » Sat 07 Mar, 2009 6:50 pm

Thanks Mog and Kev, only just found this place! But I am turning into a frequent visitor.

kev@frames · Post by **kev@frames** » Sat 07 Mar, 2009 7:37 pm

welcome to the forum, penfold, have fun

standard photo sizes seem to be going by the wayside with digital photography. maybe not a bad thing imho, crop the picture to suit the picture, rather than to suit an arbitrary frame size.
how do our photographer/framer members think about this?

ross · Post by **ross** » Sun 08 Mar, 2009 12:15 am

Couldn't agree more Kev - after all, isn't that what custom framing is all about - frame to suit the subject matter and not just make the subject matter fit a given frame

Rightly, or wrongly, we don't have a ready made frame on site - customers bring work to be custom framed and that is what we give them

Ross

WelshFramer · Post by **WelshFramer** » Sun 08 Mar, 2009 9:23 am

kev@frames wrote:crop the picture to suit the picture, rather than to suit an arbitrary frame size.

Went to a performance of Madam Butterfly some years ago. It wasn't particularly good but the best bit was when Madam Butterfly was singing an aria with a photograph of Pinkerton in her hand. From the front stalls it was easy to see that it was a full-length photograph of a sailor that had been trimmed to fit the frame. For some reason they had trimmed the photo by cutting the sailor's head off.

stephen34 · Post by **stephen34** » Sun 08 Mar, 2009 1:46 pm

If they had cropped the torso and legs Pinkerton would have been "head over heels" in love with her!

kev@frames · Post by **kev@frames** » Sun 08 Mar, 2009 8:06 pm

they could have put the head in a small frame and stuck that on top

Irregular photo sizes - actually this is where you can cash in - scchool photos often come in odball sizes, so if you happen to have some RMFs that fit, and the other shops in town don't, you can pick up some very happy new customers at school-photos time.
3.5 x 5" seems to be a school photo size they use around here a lot.

Moglet · Post by **Moglet** » Mon 09 Mar, 2009 1:14 pm

WelshFramer wrote:...Madam Butterfly was singing an aria with a photograph of Pinkerton in her hand. From the front stalls it was easy to see that it was a full-length photograph of a sailor that had been trimmed to fit the frame. For some reason they had trimmed the photo by cutting the sailor's head off.

That'd be worth the fee for the opera glasses!

Post by **prospero** » Mon 09 Mar, 2009 2:46 pm

I often wonder why all the ready mounted uni graduation photos are all a weird size. And they are usually have a foiled on caption that people want to keep, so you can't work round that.

Why didn't they make them 10x8 in a 12x10 oval mount and be done with it?

Jonny2morsos · Post by **Jonny2morsos** » Mon 09 Mar, 2009 3:05 pm

I use Loxley Colour in Glasgow for all my photo printing. They list 44 "Standard Sizes" starting at 2.5" x 3.5" going up to 60" x 40"!!

The list of Other Sizes is about twice as long including A5, A4 etc.

I don't think there are standard sizes any more just common sizes which were probably the old standard sizes e.g 6 x 4 , 6 x 8, 10 x 8 etc.(if that makes sense).

John.

Roboframer · Post by **Roboframer** » Mon 09 Mar, 2009 3:07 pm

prospero wrote:I often wonder why all the ready mounted uni graduation photos are all a weird size. And they are usually have a foiled on caption that people want to keep, so you can't work round that

'course you can, once you've explained what sort of stuff that mount is made from, tell them you can cut out that caption and the university emblem, and reveal them in a mount of your own, the colour of which they get to choose.

kev@frames · Post by **kev@frames** » Mon 09 Mar, 2009 5:04 pm

prospero wrote: ....... Why didn't they make them 10x8 in a 12x10 oval mount and be done with it?

because they couldn't sell their bulk-made oddball size frames to all the graduates' families if they did that

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