For those of us who like to frame our prints, it gets pretty expensive when we use custom made frames. That’s why I like to crop my photos to fit on standard size photo paper. However, it seems that photo paper manufacturers—at least in their over 8.5″ X 11″ sizes—increasingly are adopting ISO (International Standards Organization) paper size standards, which are used in Europe and elsewhere outside of North America. In Canada, and apparently in the U.S.A., however, pre-made photo frame manufactures do not follow ISO standard sizes. Therefore you end up buying larger-sized paper and trimming your print to fit one of the standard frame sizes—an irritating and expensive practice.
This has become a pet peeve of mine, i.e., trying to match prints made on standard photo paper to pre-made photo frames. And it seems that Jeff Revell (Jeff’s Photo Gallery Blog) shares my annoyance with the mismatch (see Jeff’s “rant” here). And for an industry representative’s unofficial response, see Scott Kelby’s recent post here.
