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Subject: [OM] Re: 500/8 Zuiko
From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:56:18 -0800
> From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Jan Steinman wrote:
>>> From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
>>
>>> I guess "mirror lens" is more appropriate nowadays.
>>
>> I prefer what the Zuiko 500/8 says on the barrel: "Reflex".
> But catadioptric is more descriptive of the optical design and  
> Maksutov
> even more so.  Reflex is more generic and could fit any Cassegrain
> design or even a Schiefspiegler for that matter.

If you're wearing a pin that says, "I'm your Sales Associate: Fred,"  
then I'll call you Fred.

The Zuiko 500/8 prefers to be called "Reflex," so's I call's it  
"Reflex."


:::: I'm not looking for culprits because we're all culprits. Every  
last one of us is doing things that shouldn't be done in a rational  
society because we haven't known any alternative. -- M. King Hubbert,  
1976 ::::
:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.EcoReality.org> ::::




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