Re: 6x6 - Waste of Space? (WAS: Re: Medium Format-Which one isbest?)

[Bruce Rubenstein]

It was US occupied Japan, at the time, we wouldn't let them ship a non standard film format camera out of the country. This was what actually forced them. (read it on the internet I think it was Nikon's history site).

BR

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

It's been done. Nippon Kogaku and a couple of other early Japanese camera
companies tried to establish 24 x 32 (I believe) as a standard format when
they first started making cameras. Eventually they were forced by market
expectations to conform to the established European standard.

--Mike