On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 11:34:17AM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: > > As an aside, one thing that annoys me every time that I actually think about > it is my tendency to use "ISO" rather than "sensitivity". It is odd, > however, that the standards organization is mentioned at all on film speed. > I suspect that at one time, there were several competing standards used for > film speed, and it was the ASA's standard that one, so that was the only one > people born after 1960 have ever seen, at least until the standard was > adopted by ISO. > > And a quick check of wikipedia confirms my hypothesis: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_speed
I remember film (and exposure meters) with ratings in both the ASA and DIN systems. -- 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.
