On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 18:17 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Much more cunning that that and has nothing to do with any existing > reserved uid :-) > > Other rejected answers were that 51 is a palindrome in binary - which I > didn't know at the time but would have been a very cool reason.
51mm is a nice focal length for a portrait lens on a 35mm camera (to
take, you know, snapshots!) Canon only sell 50mm lenses, so perhaps
that's not it either?
cheers,
tim
