John:
Here's one of them:
http://www.editorsnet.com/article/printerfriendly/0,7226,116917,00.html
and here's another:
http://www.subclub.org/shop/halframe.htm
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of kilopascal
> Sent: June 28, 2001 20:59
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:14093] Re: FW: Fw: Edison Film
>
>
> 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
> >
>
