----- Original Message ----- From: "Fuji CIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 2001-07-03 11:38 Subject: Re: Consumer Product Information Request -Reply -Reply -Reply Dear John, Thank you for contacting Fujifilm. Please allow us to assist you. Please be advised that we are not responsible for information on websites that are not administered directly by Fujifilm. If the person responsible for this page would like direct confimation of this information, we would suggest that he contact our Sensitized Products Technical Hotline at 1-800-788-3854, option #73. The technicians and photographers who answer calls to this line will be able to clear up any confusion on this point. Thank you for your interest in Fujifilm products. Respectfully, Website Coordinator Consumer Information Service Center Corporate Communications Division >>> "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/29/01 12:41am >>> 2001-06-29 The message you last responded to was meant to be forwarded to the USMA (United States Metric Association) user list, but somehow it went back to you. The original inquiry to you was prompted by the message I received from the person (shown copied below the text of this message) below after visiting his website and reading that 35 mm film is really 34.8 mm because that is some sort of exact conversion of 1-3/8 inches. Actually, depending on rounding, the conversion of 1-3/8 inches can be anywhere from 34.8 mm to 35.0 mm. As you see in his response, unless he hears something from an official source, that film made today is exactly 35 mm and not 34 point whatever, he will not change the information on his website. Since Fuji is a world wide leader in the making of film, what better "official source" can there be? I no longer have the link to his website, but if I should come across it, I will send it to you. His e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for responding, I look forward to your response to this message. Thanks, John ----- 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 off by 0.1 mm, but this still does not make "35 mm" film into 35 mm -- it's still only around 34.9mm. Unless you have an official source or article specifying that the film was changed to 35 mm at some point, I'm leaving it as "35 mm". Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fuji CIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2001-06-28 13:28 Subject: Re: Consumer Product Information Request -Reply -Reply Dear Mr. John P. Schweisthal: Thank you for your reply to our e-mail. Please allow us to assist you further. Unfortunately, we do not have a record as to who may have informed you that 35mm film is 34.8mm wide. You original e-mail (attached) did not contain any e-mail or website addresses. Thank you for your interest in Fujifilm products. Respectfully, Website Coordinator Consumer Information Service Center Corporate Communications Division >>> "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/25/01 06:22pm >>> 2001-06-25 Another note. I want to send this reply to the guy who insisted the film is not 35 mm but 34.8 mm as proof the film is a true 35 mm. But, I deleted the e-mails containing his web-site and e-mail address. Can someone who archived the information please resend it to me. 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: "Fuji CIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 2001-06-25 10:16 Subject: Consumer Product Information Request -Reply Dear Mr. John P. Schweisthal: Thank you for contacting Fujifilm. We are extremely sorry for the lengthy delay in our reply to your e-mail, which was due to very high e-mail volume. Please allow us to assist you. Please be advised that 35mm film is indeed 35mm wide. However, the image area of the film is 24mm wide. If you should have any further questions, please contact our Sensitized Products Technical Hotline at 1-800-788-3854, option #73. Thank you for your interest in Fujifilm products. Respectfully, Website Coordinator Consumer Information Service Center Corporate Communications Division
