At 11:59 PM 5/1/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Thomas Bantel wrote:
>
> > Tom DelRosario wrote:
> > >
> > > Sorry for the off-topic question. But, even though I am reading a lot
> > > of photography books, I have never seen an answer to this question: if
> > > the frame size is 24mm x 36 mm, then why is it called 35 mm film?
> >
> > It's the width of the film.
>
>Not. 24mm is the width of the film. 36mm is the length of the film. Guess
>again.
No...24 mm is the width of the image area of the film and 36 mm is the
length of the image area of one image. The film is 35 mm wide...this
includes the image and the sprocket holes.
--Mike
~~ Michael Wood
~~ San Leandro, CA USA
~~ mwood at mykoweb dot com
~~ http://www.mykoweb.com/
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