Products Named After ISO
The fact that many of the ISO-created standards are ubiquitous has led, on occasion, to common use of "ISO" to describe the actual product that conforms to a standard. Some examples of this are:
- Many CD images end in the file extension "ISO" to signify that they are using the ISO 9660 standard file system as opposed to another file system—hence CD images are commonly referred to as "ISOs". Virtually all computers with CD-ROM drives can read CDs that use this standard. Some DVD-ROMs also use ISO 9660 file systems.
- Photographic film's sensitivity to light, its "film speed", is described by ISO 6, ISO 2240 and ISO 5800. Hence, the film's speed is often referred to as its "ISO number".
- Often, the flash hot shoe found on cameras is called "ISO shoe", as it was originally defined in ISO 518.
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