> > I think hell just froze over, but I have to agree with JCO here. Full > Frame is technically just full frame for the basic format (As the new > PhaseOne P65+ is 645 full frame) but in common usage it refers > specifically to 24x36mm sensors on a 35mm platform. Common usage has > already stuck as of several years ago and we'll all just need to deal > with it. > > -- > M. Adam Maas >
How this branch of the conversation began was that someone belittled Olympus over not ever being able to go "full frame" because they were "stuck" with a lens mount incapable of supporting it. I pointed out that Olympus has a different platform that was intended to be the size it is, in which context it is indeed "full frame", albeit not 35mm "full frame". It's true that the 24mm x 36mm camp has monopolised the term lately for the simple reason that the 35mm form factor was the only one where "full frame" cameras mixed it with reduced format cameras. Medium format hadn't reached that standard, while other formats never had an arbitrary measurement to reach to qualify as "full frame". Now I learn that Phase one has announced an upcoming product, and significantly they called it "the world's first FULL FRAME 645 medium format camera system". Their words, my emphasis. So now another format has achieved the holy grail of "full frameness", and more are bound to follow. What odds on a 6cm x 7cm digital sensor within 5 years? The Linhof Techno's ground glass screen for Leaf backs is already engraved with 71mm x 56mm format lines, so what trade secret do they know? I'm sorry to tell you all this, but other format users will soon be calling their cameras "full frame", and they won't mean 24mm x 36mm. A lot of photographers will just need to "deal with it". Regards, Anthony > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Adam Maas > Sent: Tuesday, 21 October 2008 10:11 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Sony full frame A900, where's Pentax? > (old message snipped) > > I think hell just froze over, but I have to agree with JCO here. Full > Frame is technically just full frame for the basic format (As the new > PhaseOne P65+ is 645 full frame) but in common usage it refers > specifically to 24x36mm sensors on a 35mm platform. Common usage has > already stuck as of several years ago and we'll all just need to deal > with it. > > -- > M. Adam Maas > http://www.mawz.ca > Explorations of the City Around Us. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
