Decimal inches seem so rational, and inches are more of a human scale
than millimeters.
David Savage wrote:
>Some people read the specs, see the larger numbers, and become
>concerned. I find many people have a hard time visualising written
>numbers to real world scale.
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>Going O.T.
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>This is the first time I've ever come across someone who used the 1/10
>inch scale.
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>(admittedly I grew up with & use every day the metric system, but still...)
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>Dave
>
>On 9/16/06, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>A number of people have been carping about how big the K10D is. I was
>>doing a bit of thinking about that and decided to compare the published
>>sizes of the *ist-Ds to the K10D, I wanted to use the D but I couldn't
>>find the published data, and I was just too lazy to measure it.. I then
>>compared the difference in size of the LX to the MX and guess what.
>>It's in the same ball park. The K10D is 6/10 of an inch wider, 4/10 of
>>an inch taller and 2/10 of an inch thicker than the *ist-Ds. The LX is
>>roughly 5/10 of an inch wider 3 or 4/10 of an inch taller, (with FA-1
>>finder), and about 1/10 of an inch thicker.the D is a couple 1/10's of
>>an inch wider than the Ds and a couple 1/10's of an inch shorter than
>>the Ds.
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