About 12 years ago I went to Canada with some other folks to visit Floyd Toole
at one of the universities. (Dr. Toole is a self-professed expert in the design
and evaluation of loudspeakers.) I brought along my four PML microphones, which
Dr. Toole was going to calibrate for me.
The customs officer wanted me to pay import duty. Why? Because Canada is
desperately afraid you're going to sell these items -- even though they're used
-- bypassing regular importers. I was forced to leave the mics at the customs
office.
If the merchandise were NIB, I could see this. (Maybe.) But it otherwise makes
no sense. It's a major hardship on professionals who need to bring equipment to
do their work.
It would make more sense for customs to keep a detailed record of what you
brought in, then require payment if you didn't bring it back with you. And even
_that_ is more than a little unreasonable -- as an individual (not a business),
I should be free to sell whatever I like to whomever I like whenever I like.
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The 16mm Zuiko full-frame fisheye is Really Neat. It was one of my earliest
purchases, and I've gotten many terrific pictures with it. Strongly recommended.
There is nothing wrong with making the fisheye distortion part of the image.
_Don't_ limit yourself to scenes or compositions in which the distortion is
minimized.
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I'll probably by shot down in flames for saying this, but the person who
supposedly had bad exposures with his new IS-30 sounds as if he isn't using the
camera correctly, doesn't understand the basics of photography, or has
unrealistic expectations of the sort of results print film can produce. It would
be nice if we could see some of the prints or negatives.
I've already run a half-dozen rolls of film through my IS-30. The lens is
complex, and hardly a low-flare design. In cases where the Sun was in or near
the edge of the field, a large single hexagonal flare glob appeared, washing out
the image. This is probably what the user is seeing, and is (more or less)
normal for complex zoom and varifocal lenses.
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