johnvanr wrote: Geoff D F wrote: gdanmitchell wrote: mdude85 wrote:
Besides, it would follow the tradition of how we refer to sensors already: by the film stocks that they are based on (APS, full frame/35mm, medium format, etc).
If I were god of the universe (working on it, but so far no luck) I’d probably make everyone simply name formats by metric dimensions: 24 x 36, 33 x 44, and so forth, perhaps abbreviated 2436 and 3344.
Like that’s going to happen!
I though you Americans regarded the metric system as some sort of communist plot?
I lived in the US for thirty years and never figured out inches etc. And I got used thinking about outside temperatures in centigrade and inside in Fahrenheit. I hope I’ll recuperate now that I’m back in Europe. Unfortunately, I brought my cars over and have to remind myself that 60 is really 100…
Heh. As hard as it is for Americans to adapt to metric measurements, I can only imaging how crazy it must be for people from “metric countries” to make sense out of our absurd system! 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 5282 (or something) feet in a mile. Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees? A cup is also a half pint. There are 8 ounces in a cup. 2 cups is a pint. 4 cups is a quart. For quarts is a gallon. It is, I admit, quite nuts.
At least our money is essentially metric!
Of course, we all share an insane calendar. 12 months in a year, but they could be 28 (or maybe 29), 30, or 31 days long…
And with that, the odds of ever streamlining the naming of camera formats is pretty much zero. ;-)
Oct 10, 2024 at 03:23 PM
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