Re: ASPH vs Aspheric

["Richard W. Hemingway" <n5xrd@telepath.com>]

At 01:10 PM 6/1/96 -0500, you wrote:

I'm sorry Fred that I don't know you, but you have a bunch of assumtions:

>But the apparent desperate desire to own the biggest and best at any 
>cost and with scant regard for an end use does bother me a bit... but to
the APO nonsense and some of the other esoteric questions of late. 

I think your conclusions are nonsense as they apply to others of whom you
have no knowledge.  I don't know if you are a control freak, but apparantly
if we must conform to your ideas for camera usage. I asked  some questions
about 2X APO and non APO teleconverters, because I was planning a purchase
of some used equipment.  I would rather find out how it works together
before, rather than after, I buy it.  According to you I have no problem - I
don't deserve it.

>I own and use a 24mm aspheric f/1.4 Canon lens for SLRs. It is 
>sensational. And professionally I have had great success with it. Soon 

I guess its OK for a "professional" (whatever that means) to own these lenses.

>I made pictures for my National Geographic article on Tibet inside the
country's most >sacred monastery, 

Hey, whoopee!!!  I never saw them, but I'm sure I would have been impressed!
 

>OK, great use of a great lens. 

Yeah, says who.

>And with that thought in mind, I have to ask also, what are the end uses 
>for the photographs made by our group?

Why "by the group?" I thought this was an individual hobby. You take your
pics the way you want and enjoy them, I'll take mine the way I want and with
whatevewr equipment I want and will enjoy them..  BTW I have taken over
15,000 chromes during my 69 years - not a single one of which has ever been
published.  I am a very pedesterian photographer and I doubt many people
would enjoy looking at them - so I better sell all my Leica stuff and buy
P&S.  Yes I do project them on a 70 x 70 screen (my wife has eye
problems)with a Kodak projector.  But surprise, I use a Leica colorplan CF
2.5 90mm curved field and a 4" F/2.8 Golden Navitar flat field lens.

>coddle, and look at without touching. I really wonder about dreaming of 
>owning a camera without a mark on it. 
 
Well sometimes we have to sell them - maybe I should put them all in a bag
and bang them around so I can look like a "Professional" (whatever that is).

>After all, folks, they are only cameras and lenses.... meant to be used 
>and enjoyed. Get a life. 

With this conclusion I agree, just  don't you tell me what kind of a life to
get.

Fred:

I don't know why you are all worked up over a few posts.  This is the second
time in a week someone has apparantly tried to censure what the group could
post, or in your case, what we can think about.

Bad week???  Indigestion kicking up????

Seriously, if I have in any way offended you I am truly sorry, but I haven't
had so much fun in a long time as responding to your posting.  It is a good
lecture, and I should know something about that!

Richard W. Hemingway
Eugene O. Kuntz Professor of Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources Law Emeritis
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Norman, Ok