On Dec 19, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote: > Is there another more socially or technically acceptable way of referring to > a digital sensor that is the same size as a frame of film? The use of the > term "full frame" seems to offend some people,
It doesn't offend me. It just doesn't make sense. The film reference is unnecessary. And, as I said, all cameras that I know of have a full frame. They're just sized differently. > but I don't know of an alternative that requires fewer words. I don't know of > anyone who ever referred to Prince as the Artist Formerly Known As Prince > because it's a hassle. > > If Pentax were to produce a dSLR that has a digital sensor that measured 24mm > x 36mm, what would we call that (without offending anyone's sensibilities)? We would call it 24 x 36, which is exactly what it would be. Except that it won't be unless hell freezes over:-). Paul > > Jeffery > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
