Re: Pentax lens screw sizes, help please

[Peter J. Alling]

Then why didn't you.  Everything was labeled to be done in metric 
measurements.  Has been for
30+ years.  It wasn't the industrial giants who were against metric, it 
was the housewives, among others
who didn't want to try to convert their cherished recipes from tsps. and 
cups to ml cl. 

Luigi de Guzman wrote:
On Tuesday 21 December 2004 23:51, William Robb wrote:
 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Luigi de Guzman"
Subject: Re: Pentax lens screw sizes, help please
   

Even living as I do in the USA, I'll take metric over imperial
measures any
day.  Perhaps someday even this country will go to a hard metric
system--the
journey of a ten thousand li* begins with a single step, after
all...
     

I think Jimmy Carter decreed that the USA would join step with the
rest of the world and adopt the metric system.
Unfortunately, he seems to have been somewhat ahead of his time.
   

It was LBJ that was supposed to bring the USA into the metric system, as I 
recall.  I don't know this for sure, but I would have suspected that Detroit 
(or some other big manufacturing interest) would have sabotaged this and 
pushed instead for "soft" metrization.  

I graduated high school in 1998 (that probably makes me the baby here) and we 
still used US fluid ounces in our photo lab--even if, right across the hall, 
we used liters and mL in chemistry.  I for one preferred working everything 
out in metric:  I hated having to do all the fractions for mixing photo 
chemicals in fluid ounces.

-Luigi
 

William Robb
   


 


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