On Wed, 2 May 2001 07:34:34 +0100, you wrote:
>> >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
>
> Quite right too old bean ...
>
>Surely only someone who does not use metric units (who feels more
>comfortable with feet and inches) could think that 35mm film strip was
>only 24mm wide!!! Or maybe someone without access to both some film
>strip and a ruler at one and the same time ...
>
>
>The piece in fromt of me is 35mm wide (including sproket holes).
>Perversely I measure the exposed frames as 24mm HIGH by 36mm WIDE
>;o)
>Must be something to do with instinct that landscape format is *the
This all quite clear, but why is often referred to as "135?" Seems
like it was called that long before you could say that the "1" was
there as a computer place holder.
Ken Durling
Website http://home.earthlink.net/~kdurling/
Alternate e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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