[rollei_list] Re: OT:Nikon picture format
- From: Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:53:11 -0400
> --- El lun 28-sep-09, aghalide@xxxxxxx <aghalide@xxxxxxx> escribió:
>
>> Why is it no one has mentioned the 23 x 34 mm Nikon?
>
> The 24mm x 32mm "Nikon" frame format was initially adopted for these reasons:
> 1 The 3:4 proportion seemed to have better proportions than the "Leica" format
> 24x36mm (2:3).
> 2 It could take 40 frames and was more economical than the "Leica" format of
> 36 frames.
> 3 The standard of the slide projector provided by the Japanese Ministry of
> Education was 24 x 32 mm.
>
> This frame format was abandoned about 1949 when the USA market started to be
> significant for the Nikon cameras, the picture size of the "Nikon" format (24
> x 32 mm) did not correspond to the automatic color slide cutting machines that
> were used in the U.S.A.;those machines operated with the Leica format (24 x 36
> mm), the pictures would be incorrectly cut.
>
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The "Leica" format I believe started out as a 40 frame idea.
I just read that somewhere.
A thing on Barnack.
Mark William Rabiner
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