5x5 Photo Album

I bought two photo albums today that I really like, though when I got home and tried to insert photographs into them, I noticed that the 4x6 inch prints that I normally get don't fit. I measured the plastic spaces with a ruler and they are about 3.5x5 inches each. Is this a standard photo print size that I've never heard of?

Is 3.5x5 a standard photo print size that my local printing place (either a Walgreens or a specialty camera store, depending on how much I feel like spending at the time) will be able to make? Or will I have to cut the edges off of photos to make them fit? Please help, I really do like these photo albums and I'd love to use them!
Bonus question!

What are some good photo processing places in the Greenwich Village area of New York City (the West Village in particular)? Ideally I'd like both a nice place that'll do the job right and a cheap place that I can go to if I'm low on cash.
Ignore the part about New York City, I asked it as a separate question...

I remeasured the slots in the photo album and the side that I initially said was 3.5 inches is actually closer to 4 inches, though it's still small enough that a 4x6 print doesn't quite fit.

Also when I talk about prints I more mean prints of 35mm film (and occasionally 120, though I don't normally put those photos into albums). Also I don't live anywhere near a Walmart (which I know is kind of weird), so please don't recommend that to me.

You are right, 3.5x5 is an old standard print size. 4x6 has become the standard since around the middle 1990's, maybe before.

When I was doing custom colour printing in the late 1980's, the machine prints were all 4x6, but that was the lab I worked for. The reason 4x6 became so popular was that they are the exact image ratio of the 35 mm film, 3:2, so the whole image was printed and nothing was lost to cropping.

You may want to look for some more contemporary photo albums that will hold the larger prints.

In Manhattan, I would suggest you take a walk through B&H Photo and see what they have on their shelves.

2009-07-28 22:35:01 by lovesmesumcake

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