The format formerly known as 35 mm. On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 7:48 PM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
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