Many people find it hard to distinguish between a zoom lens and a
"telescopic" lens. :-)
One Ebay hopeful was offering a 135mm wide-angle last week. And, yes, the
picture showed a genuine 135mm, not a 35mm.
John
On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 23:27:00 +0100, John Dallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It seems to come from people who think that the singular of "lenses" is
"lense". However, it is definitely a misspelling by British standards.
A word that isn't misspelt often, but is definitely misapplied often, is
"zoom". The non-working K2 I have came with a "zoom" lens that looked
like
a 100-200 zoom in the eBay photo but proved to be the SMCP-M 100/4.0
macro. I didn't complain, because I preferred the macro.
However, it does seem that people with no clue about photography often
described any lens much physically large than a standard lens as a
"zoom";
I think this stems from watching television, where any narrow-angle shot
is thought of as "zoomed".
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