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Would you prefer Metric or Imperial markings ?

Would you prefer Metric or Imperial markings ?

  • Metric

    Votes: 167 76.3%

  • Imperial

    Votes: 52 23.7%
  • Total voters
    219
Seth Larney

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Hey all,

Would you prefer Metric or Imperial markings on your Red lenses ?

I think everyone would probably prefer both, so I've limited the choices to one or the other as I think that info is more useful.

Sorry Red team if this is too late to change and we're opening a can of worms..

Cheers,
Seth.
 
Seth Larney said:
Hey all,

Would you prefer Metric or Imperial markings on your Red lenses ?

I think everyone would probably prefer both, so I've limited the choices to one or the other as I think that info is more useful.

Sorry Red team if this is too late to change and we're opening a can of worms..

Cheers,
Seth.
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I really hope we can order metric.
JJ
DP
 
Both would be good IMO.

Stephen
 
Slinnn said:
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A lot of people around the world use the metric system...

Pleaaase, add the metric markings !
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I always find this kind of comment funny. Is the glass half full or half empty, or in this case, is the glass 5% empty or 95% full. Who actually uses imperial, and for how long ? I am in no way an advocate of a unique world culture, but I believe the imperial system will go the way of the Dodo. Both the USA and the UK have already started adopting the metric systems. The only countries using the imperial system are : England, USA, Myanmar, Burma and Liberia.
This info comes from here : http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/internat.htm

And according to this article, one should differentiate the UK and the US imperial systems : http://www.france-property-and-information.com/imperial-system-and-history.htm

In any case, both would obviously be the way to go, if I HAD to choose, well I'm born and raised in Europe, that answers that.

Cheers,
Damien
 
CraigWB said:
I don't think it really matters, You've got both on your tape measures already so the only real advantage this could have a real advantage beyond being a very small bonus.
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Hi Craig,

Tape measures in Europe are metric, in the UK they have both scales. Many focus pullers can only judge distance in either feet or meters so it is an issue.

Stephen
 
earthling said:
I always find this kind of comment funny. Is the glass half full or half empty, or in this case, is the glass 5% empty or 95% full. Who actually uses imperial, and for how long ? I am in no way an advocate of a unique world culture, but I believe the imperial system will go the way of the Dodo. Both the USA and the UK have already started adopting the metric systems. The only countries using the imperial system are : England, USA, Myanmar, Burma and Liberia.
This info comes from here : http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/internat.htm

And according to this article, one should differentiate the UK and the US imperial systems : http://www.france-property-and-information.com/imperial-system-and-history.htm

In any case, both would obviously be the way to go, if I HAD to choose, well I'm born and raised in Europe, that answers that.

Cheers,
Damien
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Ok, you're right, I should've said :
"Most of the people around the world use the metric system..."
:wink:
 
People who say you could just buy a metric tape measure have obviously never pulled focus.

Although I am a Canadian and we have been 100% metric since the 70's, focus pulling is still done entirely in FEET and inches.

As someone said, it is a perfect sized increment. Decimetres and centimetres are just too confusing.

High-end focus pulling is a very intuitive, Zen type of thing. A person trained in feet could never learn to use metres.

If Red wants to continue on its world-class path, they have absolutely no choice but to offer lenses marked in feet and metres but never both on the same lens.
 
Any news about metric markings on RED lenses?
 
Metric obvoiusly. What's imperial? Sounds chinese to me.
 
CrewPix.com said:
People who say you could just buy a metric tape measure have obviously never pulled focus.

Although I am a Canadian and we have been 100% metric since the 70's, focus pulling is still done entirely in FEET and inches.

As someone said, it is a perfect sized increment. Decimetres and centimetres are just too confusing.

High-end focus pulling is a very intuitive, Zen type of thing. A person trained in feet could never learn to use metres.

If Red wants to continue on its world-class path, they have absolutely no choice but to offer lenses marked in feet and metres but never both on the same lens.
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:poster_stupid:

And Phosphorescent markings too please.
 
Blue said:
Metric obvoiusly. What's imperial? Sounds chinese to me.
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Not Chinese at all, it is based on the body morphology of the ruler of the kingdom... so the US focus pullers might have to get the shoe size of George Bush II to properly represent the "foot".

A foot is no more or less confusing than a cubit, dhanus or a meter- it is simply that what you use most often becomes easier to estimate and judge. Measuring out 1.75 meters isn't any more difficult than measuring out 5 feet, 8 7/8 inches. Okay, you'd just go to 5 feet nine inches at that point but you get the idea, they are just numbers to represent distances and what you use is what becomes intuitive - the International Standard just has the advantage of exceptionally easy conversion and consistency with the majority of the world.

If you learned to pull focus using a self made unit based on the length of your shin, it would be the "perfect sized increment" and far less confusing than a foot or meter.

Until you used one or the other unit long enough to stop mentally converting 1.75 meters or 5' 9" to 3 3/4 shinnies.

Just human nature.
 
I'd certainly agree with you about SI units for calculations.

Having pulled focus in both metres and feet for about the same amount of time I still favor feet and inches. A foot is somehow a more usable size. A foot is a more accurate approximation than a metre, an inch is more accurate than a decimetre and a centimetre is too hard to judge.
 
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