"Wizard of OS" wrote on 2002-09-26 11:12 UTC: > http://www.pcwelt.de/news/hardware/26364/
I'm puzzled, as to what dimension in that system will be 4/3". The sensor shown on http://www.kodak.com/country/US/en/digital/ccd/kaf5100ce.shtml http://www.dpreview.com/news/0104/01042701newolykodakslr.asp has an image area diagonale of 22.3 mm. Perhaps they refer to the fact that the standard chip package will be a 26-pin DIL with 0.1" pin spacing, leading to a chip length of slightly over 1.3", i.e. roughly 4/3"? It all looks -- apart from the marketing name and the traditional 2.54 mm pin spacing -- very much like a fully metric specification to me. Perhaps we can interview the relevant marketroid, why they are repeating the history of the 3.5" floppy disk here with an inch-based name for a metric product. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
