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Subject: [Leica] enough with Olympus DSLR postings PLEASE
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Tue Mar 21 10:07:47 2006
References: <CFELKCLHIHEIPLFOMFNNIEAHLIAA.datamaster@northcoastphotos.com>

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
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>>-----Original Message-----  David Rodgers
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>>Four thirds is an interesting marketing strategy. It sounds like 33%
>>more.
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>>If you change it to portrait rather than landscape does it transform to
>>25% less?
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>>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.
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>>Who doesn't want double of something? Who doesn't feel slighted only
>>receiving half?
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>>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".
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