2001-06-28
That's it! Do you know the web site this might have come from. There were
two posted. When I send this to Fujifilm, I'd like to point them to the
website where this mis-information is posted.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, 2001-06-28 19:03
Subject: [USMA:14087] FW: Fw: Edison Film
> John Schweisthal:
>
> Is this the message you wanted?
>
> Bill Potts, CMS
> Roseville, CA
> http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of kilopascal
> Sent: June 17, 2001 17:20
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:13856] Fw: Edison Film
>
>
> 2001-06-17
>
> A response from the other site where the 34.8 was mentioned.
>
>
> John
>
> Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrt�mlich glaubt
> frei zu sein.
>
> There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe
they
> are free!
>
> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, 2001-06-17 19:20
> Subject: Re: Edison Film
>
>
> > The info comes from the guy who invented "35mm" film -- W.K. Laurie
> Dickson.
> > He was the guy who Edison hired to make the first movie camera by the
> Edison
> > "works". In his article "A Brief History of the Kinetograph, The
> Kinetoscope
> > and the Kineto-phonograph" in the Journal of the S.M.P.E (Dec 1933), he
> wrote
> > that he ordered the film to be 1 3/8. No one in the US in 1888 used the
> > metric system. He even says in the article, that the film we use today
> > (1933) is 1 3/8, not 35mm. Perhaps you need to get a copy of the
article.
> > When I measure "35mm" film (and I have about 25 types on hand) they are
> > always less than 35mm, but always exactly 1 3/8. My conversion is of by
> > .1mm, but this still does not make "35mm" film into 35mm -- it's still
> only
> > around 34.9mm. Unless you have an official source or article specifying
> that
> > the film was changed to 35mm at some point, I'm leaving it as "35mm".
> >
> > Joe
>
