On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:20 AM, P. J. Alling
<webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You'll have to ask Ansel Adams what it stands for, he's either started or
> popularized the convention, I can't remember which.  It's a question I've
> seen posed in a number of places with no real satisfactory answer given.

Another one of those "facts" that Googling will find you, so it gets
repeated over and over until the whole world believes it. 4 years
before Ansel was born, and that probably isn't the FIRST reference:
http://www.antiqueauto.org/assets/f-stop1896.png

Darren Addy
Kearney, Nebraska

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