Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/23
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favourite standard.
Nick
--- Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Isn't normal considered to be the diagonal of the
> film format? I
> think I learned that somewhere along the line. That
> would make normal
> for 35mm just a hair over 43.3 mm. Maybe that number
> being about
> halfway between 35 and 50 would explain why average
> view is so hard
> for us to nail down--for some it's 35 and for others
> 50.
>
> Ric Carter
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