Joe X. Jackson wrote:
>
> >> > It is time there was a standard created regarding film reflectance!
> >>
> >> If you were only considering new cameras (no backward compatibility) the
> >> reflectance could be encoded on the cassette in the same way as the DX ISO
> >> rating and the camera could compensate as necessary.
>
> now *that's* a cool idea!
> shouldn't matter. the camera would know and make adjustments at
> exposure time. what'd be even cooler (since we're living in fantasyland
> here, anyway) is to encode reciprocity failure information on the
> canister as well!
Both (?) suggestions are already patented, an enginer at Kodak (or was it
Polaroid?) had the same idea. I found this information while searching for
OM patents on the IBM patent server.
Regards
Richard
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