> Thanks Fred! Interesting reading, you never cease to amaze me > with the data you have!
It's too bad, though, that I ~do~ cease to amaze people with the knowledge I actually have... ;-) I think that I fit your signature line, Steve, pretty darn well - "Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film." - <g>. > Vivitar was not too shy in its claims, were they. They (Vivitar) > tied the 135 and 200 to the space program, I thought that claim > was reserved for the Cats only. Yes, I do think that that was a bit of a stretch - it's hard to believe that NASA needed to have anyone develop a 135mm lens - <g>. > We need more third party lens competition like the good ole days. Well, there is still 3rd-party competition, of course, but I think that too much of the 3rd-party gear nowadays simply represents "less expensive versions" of camera makers' lenses. This is not to say that there is not a need for good alternative economical lenses (many of which are pretty good, I guess), but instead to suggest that it might be better if at least some of the 3rd-party companies were coming out with a lot of designs that the camera makers weren't (e.g., many of the "original" line of VS1 lenses). But I digress... Fred
