It's a crutch for people who obsess over the size of their tool ;-) Regards, Anthony
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Dario Bonazza > Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2008 5:42 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Full Frame: what is it? > > I believe Full Frame to be akin the sex of angels, a perfect topic for an > endless discussion. > > What's a frame? Is it related to lenses in use? Is it related to a bayonet > shape or a register distance? I don't think so. > > With film, a frame is related to a supposedly standardised portion of film. > That's true enough with 35mm film, which saw very few exceptions to 24x36mm. > So the 18x24mm was the half frame and the 24x72 (see Xpan) was - by > definition - a double frame. Does anyone ever called it tha way? I don't > know. > > Things become a lot harder with 120 film roll. What's full frame there? 6x6? > 6x7? 6x8? 6x9? Perhaps 6x9, so that 6x4.5 is half frame (but try to dub it > that way when talking to a 6x4.5 user and be ready to fly out) and then 6x6 > to 6x8 should all be reduced formats. This is nonsense to me. > > With digital, you have no rolls, hence the frame relates to the sensor. Any > sensor is a full frame of itself, unless you take a cropped capture. If you > fit a lens covering a larger format on a given camera - which is the case > with DA sensors equipped with say a FA lens - you are tempted to start the > FF thing. However, would you describe a 35mm camera equipped with a 645 or > 67 lens as a reduced format? Nonsense again. To me, format is related to the > sensor, not to to the lens in use, which may well be oversized at leisure. > > At the end of the day, I think that FF is just another name for something > which didn't truly need it. Its's just another way of calling 24x36mm, with > no other meaning in it. > > But I understand you all can disagree. > > Dario > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
