[LRflex] Re: OT: There Is No Free Lunch, Episode 763: Lens Adapters

  • From: George Lottermoser <george.imagist@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 17:19:02 -0500

On Sep 27, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Richard Ward wrote:

> Dear Group, 
> It would appear I made an oversight in leaving out an introductory paragraph 
> or six explaining who Mr Cicala is, why he tests lenses in the manner he 
> does, and exactly how I thought the information contained within Mr Cicala's 
> latest blog post might come in handy in a practical manner for any list 
> members who may be using high grade adapted lenses on high resolution 
> sensored cameras. 
> 
> I could easily describe my opinion of Mr Cicala as a photographer, my opinion 
> of his business, my opinion of his writings, and carefully say I 'suspect' 
> his testing methods are sound, reasonably repeatable, & emminently useful in 
> his business.
> 
> Rather than write those paragraphs let me suffice it to say that I sincerely 
> believe Mr Cicala to be an interesting individual who's blog I rarely find 
> boring. I suspect I would very much enjoy meeting him in person. I would say 
> the same for a geeat many of the individuals I've met in this group, by the 
> way.
> 
> I would like to ask a question.
> Why hasn't anyone asked why I shared the article? 
> Or why I felt it a useful read? 
> Or why I thought it might be useful to someone else? 
> Or why I thought I needed to put OT in front of that posting?
> 
> More to point, why didn't I receive the courtesy of any questions whatsoever?
> 
> I did receive extended commentary deriding the author, the uselessness of his 
> info, and so on and so forth. 
> 
> I am not sure where my lack of a preface made it appropriate to assume a 
> photographic incompetency on my part or to impugne Mr Cicala motives or 
> competencies. Further, If I had been incompetent or Mr Cicala as useless as 
> implied, I have been a polite, kind, & hopefully intelligent member of LRFLEX 
> for somewhere near four years - I would hope that alone would grant the right 
> to have received a why question or two rather than a lecture or two.
> 
> Have a good weekend fellow Flexers, I'm off to dinner with the Girlfriend. 
> Maybe catch a movie, too.

I thank you for the reference Richard.
I like to be reminded of the amazingly important close tolerances
involved with high quality digital sensors and related lenses.

Don't stop sharing and enlightening.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

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