I do not see "the ineffectiveness of the millimeter path" for film.
They
just have not used meters for length.
Robert Bushnell
On Jan 5, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Remek Kocz wrote:
Millimeters as a standard in a particular industry are great, since
no unit specification is needed, and conversions can be readily
made to units one is more comfortable with, but I find it hard to
believe that they somehow speed metrication. It's really driven by
the realities of the industry (builders need a consistent,
unambiguous set of units) rather than the unit itself. Look no
further than the US film industry for the ineffectiveness of the
millimeter path: cinematic film formats may be given in mm, but the
length of the film stock has always been measured in feet, hence
the word "footage."
Remek
