How to change meters to feet in focus scale?

[storyteller]

A quick question hopefully someone here can help me out with. I normally manually focus with manual focus lenses but I started to use my 55 for this task as well. However the automatic focusing scale that pops up in the EVF is only in meters. Is there a way to change that to feet? For us nonmetrically inclined Americans?

 

[Deleted member 5158]

Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated

 

[WoodWorks]

Yeah, having spent six years of my early life in a country where I grew up with the metric system, moving back to the States was a real shock. I mean... 12 inches to a foot? 3 feet to a yard? 5280 feet to a mile? Really? What masochist thought this system up?

 

[davect01]

Um, ya. Metric is the camera standard.

It is baked into the camera.

 

[davect01]

Yeah, having spent six years of my early life in a country where I grew up with the metric system, moving back to the States was a real shock. I mean... 12 inches to a foot? 3 feet to a yard? 5280 feet to a mile? Really? What masochist thought this system up?

I agree that the Metric system is sooo much easier.

We discussed once in a class the effort, cost and fruatration it would take to convert to metric. What a headache it would be.

 

[WNG]

Yeah, having spent six years of my early life in a country where I grew up with the metric system, moving back to the States was a real shock. I mean... 12 inches to a foot? 3 feet to a yard? 5280 feet to a mile? Really? What masochist thought this system up?

The damn Brits! Didn't we have a revolt with them?

 

[Deleted member 5158]

Yeah but they still do their Best to f... things up.
Like the Mars climate orbiter.
Unintentionally deorbited

 

[davect01]

The damn Brits! Didn't we have a revolt with them?

Yeah but they still do their Best to f... things up.
Like the Mars climate orbiter.
Unintentionally deorbited

I hope you guys are being silly. We have many great European and English, (is that the preferred reference) members.

 

[WNG]

Of course! I forgive them for all the empirical nonsense because they gave us Monty Python.

 

[Deleted member 5158]

Of course! I forgive them for all the empirical nonsense because they gave us Monty Python.

Yes
And now to something completely different.

 

[adwb]

Then there is the USA gallon

 

[Mus Aziz]

Yes
And now to something completely different.

and...the Ministry of Funny Walks!

 

[dbmiller]

and...the Ministry of Funny Walks!

Hmmm.... Silly walks, I believe. A silly walk pic thread suddenly springs to mind. Not sure I'd get any of my friends to let me take a picture of them doing one, but nonetheless, a fun idea for a thread.