Re: Different Formats for Different Countries -- Variable Density B&W Film

"David Nebenzahl" <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Chris Hills spake thus:
>> So eventually the US might start using standard paper sizes that fit in

>> with the rest of the world.
>
> And why, pray tell, would I want to do that? Just as I may ask why we
(the 
> U.S., and even, for that matter, parts of the UK) should abandon our 
> venerable measurement system in favor of the metric system? (Don't know
if 
> you're aware of it, but there's *trememdous* oppostion to metrificiation

> both here in the U.S. and abroad.)
>
> Why should I embrace a system that's cold and based on some abstract 
> notions, such as an aspect ratio based on the square root of two, where 
> the primary size (A0) from which the others are derived is defined, 
> arbitrarily, as having an area of one square meter? It's all neat and 
> consistent--and totally arbitrary, having nothing to do with real-world 
> historical pro****tions and dimensions.

Why not just wait 'til all the old fogies die out - THEN make the change?

:-)

--
Jeff R.

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