What do you folks do if you want other than 50x50 in an MF mount?

For my own purposes I would prefer 50 x 37, since I have 4:3 aspect
ratio material.

Do people make masks to insert (like the old days in 35mm mounting), or
does anyone make mounts with custom openings?

Thanks,

John Hart

> What do you folks do if you want other than 50x50 in an MF mount?
>

I'd like to speak up for a mount size that I've found to be amazingly useful: 50X45. This
is essentially half way between the landscape and square mounts that are widely available.
A few years back when I was ordering some mounts from Paul Talbot he suggested I try a
pack of these. I found that many of the shots that I might have put in a landscape mount
because of foreground obstructions would work in these and I'd lose less of the film area.
I just used my last one mounting a shot I took of the Liffey river in Dublin at twilight.
There was a wall I was shooting over and a little of it got in the bottom of the image. I
wouldn't have been able to use a 50X50 mount, but it was great having those extra
millimeters of the purple sky visible.

Of course after using these I immediately asked Paul for more and he told me this had just
been a limited experimental run. If possible I'd be glad to place a custom order for a
bunch of these.

Jim Harp