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Subject: Focal length envy (was Re: [Leica] Aperture Envy...?)
From: Gaifana@aol.com
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 07:32:48 EDT

If you think about the conversion factors, you have to be pretty sure of your 
manhood to use a rangefinder - the maximum lens is 135mm.  Maybe SLR users 
with their 300mm lenses are compensating!  :)

Cheers
Dante

In a message dated 7/6/00 2:01:46 AM, pklein@2alpha.net writes:

<< >>From: ARTHURWG@aol.com

>> Anyone who would use acetone on a Leica lens should go directly to a
>> psychiatrist. A much better alternative would be 180-grit sandpaper. Arthur

>"William Gower" <wgower@eco-tec.com> wrote:

>....anyone who can afford to see a psychiatrist can probably afford to use
>Leica equipment.

>Which begs another question, do you think Freud used a Rollie or a Leica ?

To which I sez:

Sometimes a lens is just a lens.

- --Peter (age 46, M2 c. 1970-1976, IIIf since c. 1984)



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