You go girl! ;-)
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2004 11:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: DA14mm - why so large and heavy? > > > Antonio wondered: > > Aha, here comes the rest of the lynch Mob. How is it you only > join threads I > > am in to attack me? > > Because you are a jackass and I think some of your more asinine > posts require > correction. > > > I am quite capable of speaking for myself thanks - your > representation of my > > comments is in fact (surprise, surprise) wrong. Boy you guys do like > > spinning it, dont you. > > "Thanks"?? > I'm not offering to speak for you. I'm pointing out that you > misrepresented > what someone else said, in order to disagree with your version of > what he said. > (Which is something of a pattern with you.) Unfortunately for > your credibility > (assuming you still have any around here) the very thing you quoted > demonstrated what you were doing. > > > > Saying that a 50mm lens becomes a an xxxmm lens is not "bullshit" as > > greyworld would make out (notice he also later went on to state > that "the > > whole thing seems a form a penis envy" - a curious thing to say when > > discussing focal lenghs, angles of view and lenses...). I guess > some people > > cant open their mouths without splurting out profanities. > > As a woman, I have no interest in the topic of "penis envy". But > I will discuss > lenses. A 50mm lens does not BECOME any other focal length of > lens, ever, just > by virtue of being attached to a different format of camera. > Graywolf, whom you > quoted, said it made perfect sense to state that a 50mm on a > particular digital > camera would be EQUIVALENT TO (some other focal length) on 35mm. > But, as he > went on to point out, saying it "becomes" that is untrue. > Incorrect. Total > nonsense. He used a word that you quoted and I generally don't use. > Now, if "greyworld" is a different person who said something else > that you want > to rebut, then you should quote that person along with your rebuttal. > > > > > Using the 35mm equivalent measure is very much standard > practice and very > > much widely used. It refers to AOV and how this changes > depending on sensor > > size (refered to as the crop factor). > > > Yes, you're right on both counts, but ... > > > And when people say x becomes y they > > are referring to AOV, and are entirely correct. > > .. now you're wrong. When people say x becomes y, they MAY BE > referring to AOV > and just sloppy in their language, or they may actually believe > that x becomes > y (in which case they're misunderstanding what happens). Either way the > statement is in fact incorrect. > Now, if it's obvious from the context that they're just using > sloppy language > and they're communicating with other people who understand what > they mean, > communication works fine. But if it's not clear that they know > what they really > mean, or if their audience includes people who don't know what > they really > mean, then confusion can result. Therefore, it's best not to use > the incorrect > phrasing. > > ERN >
