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Subject: Re: [OM] Outrageous claim of the week
From: "Lex Jenkins" <lexjenkins@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:17:00 GMT
While shooting on our lakefront and testing Fat Viv to determine at what point there was no vignetting at 28mm, I fell off the dock. Aperture was f/11. That makes it official. Or, at least, persuasive enough to discontinue further testing.

Lex
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From: Gary Reese <pcacala@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] Outrageous claim of the week
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 00:17:12 -0700

Anyone else get bugged by outrageous claims in descriptions of items
being sold on the Internet? ....

50mm f/1.2 Zuiko (eBay #396399036):

<< Despite the fast lens speed, high resolving power shows no edge
fall-off in the picture. >>

No edge fall-off is mathematically impossible at wide apertures!


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