Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Digital cameras should be worked on with metric tools and analog cameras with SAE standard US tools. This is a well known fact. An English racer you work on with metric. A Schwinn you work on with SAE standard US tools -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Bill and Sue Pearce <bs.pearce at cox.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:55:50 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG Digest, Vol 46, Issue 83 > > > The biggest missed opportunity in getting the U.S. to adopt the metric > system was > Oh, crap, is this stuff starting again? Why, oh why, when money is tight, > should our government have to expend bazillions of dollars on this fools > errand? What is to be gained? Doesn't what we have work just fine now? So > others use another system, what's that to me? I never saw the reason to be > like everyone else. > > > There is another potential opportunity right now. Gasoline should be sold > by > the liter rather than by the gallon. A $4 price for gas sounds like highway > robbery. A $1 price per liter sounds almost reasonable. That's much cheaper > than a Starbuck's Grande coffee. > This sounds like something you can market to politicians. Good luck! > > > By the way, anyone who does any mechanical work on automobiles already has > to have a full set of metric tools. > Sure, they have either one or both, depending on what they work. Simple. I > don't think anyone is going to bring about a program to get me a MF digital > system so I can increase my business. > > I'm reminded of what my father, an aeronautical engineer responsible of > design elements in several major airplanes said on the subject. He was used > to working in inches and thousandths. "I don't want to lose accuracy!" > > Bill Pearce > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information