Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Damn, First we Giclee and now we break out the rulers. Hell, I'm going to go finish pulling weeds in the backyard. Walt Gary Todoroff wrote: >Consider, too, that only in the world of photographic numbers is 4x5 bigger >than 6x7, which is bigger than 35. Also 120=620. FourThirds perfectly fits >the extrapolation of this precise arithmetic curve. >Gary T > > > >>-----Original Message----- David Rodgers >> >> > > > >>Four thirds is an interesting marketing strategy. It sounds like 33% >>more. >> >>If you change it to portrait rather than landscape does it transform to >>25% less? >> >>I always thought the concept of half frame was a marketing mistake. They >>should have compared it to 127 and called it double frame. The Pen F >>would have been a huge success. >> >>Who doesn't want double of something? Who doesn't feel slighted only >>receiving half? >> >>35mm (where did 135 come from?) should have been named by length of >>roll. Then we'd all be shooting 48 inch format and digital would be >>1/66ths or "less than 1.5 percent format". >> >> >> >> >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.6/287 - Release Date: 3/21/2006 > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >