Kodak's specs are metric but wihy is it 4/3" why not real 35 mm. maybe 4/3" is hidden metric?
strange practice by Kodak! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Markus Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 3:19 PM Subject: [USMA:22352] Re: 2 metric companies developing non-metric devices > "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/> >
