Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >This sort of techno-fetichistic stupidity makes me want to scream. >It'll be a hold week in Hell before the manufacturers of >photographic materials get to tell photographers what they are >allowed to take pictures of. It is bad enough that the >manufacturers of technology (such as the slide mounting automation) >produce something that only manages to deal with a subset of the >real world variation and screws up when it faces anything outside >that subset. It's extremely sad when people start defending such >screw-ups. What gets me is that Nikon couldn't get an export permit for the Nikon M because is was 24x32 and MacArthur was told by Kodak that they couldn't auto-mount slides in that size. So that came out with the Nikon S that was 24x34 but used the right number of sprocket holes, then came out with the Nikon S2 with 24x36. 24x32 was great. It saved film (40 frames on a 36 format) and enlarged to better fit 4x5 paper. Long live 24 x 32! Sorry, wrong list. :-) Karen Nakamura www.photoethnography.com p.s. For a long time, 24x36 was known as "Leica format." Other cameras used other variations. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html