There are times when things are just way harder than they need to be. Like when your trying to get a wordpress theme to work well on every concievable operating system and or mobile device. Or locating the correct abbreviation for the Micro Four Thirds camera system. Guess what, according to them I just used the correct abbreviation. Although there seems to be a wonderfully large number of candidates for what it could be both Micro Four Thirds original developers Olympus and Panasonic use either the full “Micro Four Thirds” or seldomly “4/3″ but not some weird greek letter for micro or “M” or “m” prior to “4/3″ and never “M 4/3rds”.

So you can say what in the world brought on all this information, I was trying to update my Camera gear page and was looking to differentiate between my older Nikon mount lenses I no longer own and the older Olympus Micro 4/3 lenses I no longer own.  Decided to google the possible abbreviations only to fall into Alices rabbit hole, there were literally a page of “why is there no abbreviation for Micro Four Thirds” listings. So I turned to wikipedia the fount of all things possibly not true and they liked “MFT” which when you search for that abbreviation there are over 30 other things laying claim to MFT.

So I guess I am going to use “Micro 4/3″ as it is at least shorter by 8 typed characters than Micro Four Thirds. It also has the benifit that no one will wonder why I am referencing the “Minnesota Federation of Teachers” or the “Maximal Fairness Theorem”. Yup, theres always those two well know other thinkers they own “MFT” abbreviators and 41 others beyond the three I mentioned.