2002-12-08 I sent this to dpreview feedback page. I hope someone reads it and corrects the error:
2002-12-08 Sir, Your article referenced in the link below: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0209/02092410olydak43inch.asp has a bogus error appearing throughout the article. You are referring at times to the standard as being a 4/3 INCH standard, instead of just a 4/3 standard. The 4/3 is an aspect ratio, not a dimension and is thus unitless. It could mean 4/3 inch per inch or even 4/3 metre per metre. The units cancel out and the result is unitless. All standard TV sets use this ratio. It means the horizontal distance of the tube is 4 units long for every 3 units it is high. It makes no difference what the units are. Here is proof: The Four Thirds System November 1, 2002 In September, Olympus and Kodak announced they were proposing a new digital SLR camera standard for all digital SLR camera manufacturers to consider. Olympus dubbed it the Four Thirds System (4/3 System) based on the aspect ratio of the image sensor proposed. We welcome this new standard and the fact that Olympus is trying to forge an agreement among the major camera manufacturers to come up with digital SLR standards. You can see the article here: http://www.photoxels.com/news_FourThirds.html Please correct your error by removing all references to the word inch that appear in your article. Thank You, John > I finally learned about where the name "Four Thirds" of the new > Olympus/Kodak digital camera optics standard came from. > > http://www.dpreview.com/news/0209/02092410olydak43inch.asp John
