On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 17:40:14 -0500, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As many of you know, I work part-time at a camera shop here in
> Pittsburgh. We're about a mile up the road from Carnegie-Mellon
> University, one of the world leaders in robotics research. Today, one of
> their students came in looking to buy a couple of polarizers or other
> filters for the camera on one of the robots they're working on. He
> didn't know what size filter thread he needed so he went back to the
> university and brought the lens and the arm (or whatever) it is bolted
> to. It was a Pentax video camera lens! (6mm focal length, if you must
> know.)
> 
> It uses a 43mm filter thread and amazingly enough we actually had a 43m
> polarizer in stock. Sadly, he needed two of them as they have a stereo
> imaging setup with dual cameras.
> 

Did you tell him to submit a PUG?

<vbg>

-frank


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