On Oct 21, 2008, at 07:36 , "JC OConnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Since medium format already has/had so many formats,
645,6x6,6x7,6x8,6x9
Etc, I strongly doubt any camera company or photographers are going to
Us the simple term "FF"
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How this branch of the conversation began was that someone belittled
Olympus
over not ever being able to go "full frame" because they were "stuck"
with a
lens mount incapable of supporting it. I pointed out that Olympus
has a
different platform that was intended to be the size it is, in which
context
it is indeed "full frame", albeit not 35mm "full frame".
May I stir the pot o'gruel?
Following the 'standard' of the film industry, the Olympus PEN cameras
were originally referred to as "full frame" cameras, after the fact
that their 'frames' were the same size as a motion picture 35mm 'frame."
That makes your Spotmatic or K-1000 a 'double-frame' camera, as well
as all subsequent versions of what we refer to as 'full-frame' cameras.
Stew on that for a while, just to keep the nonsense alive.
Joseph McAllister
Pentaxian
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