On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 07:54:23PM -0500, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Steven Desjardins <drd1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The format formerly known as 35 mm. > > 35 mm full-frame, or 35 mm half-frame?
Quite. Especially since "half frame" was the original frame size. When "miniature" cameras using 35mm movie film stock came along they ran the film horizontally, not vertically, so a landscape orientation took up twice as many sprocket holes as a movie frame (and changed the aspect ratio from 4:3 to 3:2 at the same time). Current "APS-C" DSLRs are truer to the original 35mm film heritage than those bastard film SLRs we had to suffer with in the interim. -- 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.
