Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-15 Thread Bill
On 09/09/2013 7:41 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote: ebay item 231050936281 While I didn't own that lens, I was able to use one when I was living in Calgary. Apparently a local photographer had bought one, used it for a project, and then was trying to sell it. I played with the thing for a couple of

Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-11 Thread John
Yet, oddly enough, an ounce of gold weighs more than an ounce of feathers. Go figure. On 9/11/2013 5:26 AM, J.C. O'Connell wrote: a pound of feathers, gold only has twelve troy oz per pound. On 9/10/2013 9:08 PM, John wrote: Which weighs more a pound of gold or a pound of feathers? On 9/10/2

Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-11 Thread J.C. O'Connell
a pound of feathers, gold only has twelve troy oz per pound. On 9/10/2013 9:08 PM, John wrote: Which weighs more a pound of gold or a pound of feathers? On 9/10/2013 7:35 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 01:48:42PM -0400, John wrote: So much more affordable when you think of it a

Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-11 Thread Bob W
Depends on the bird. Obviously cormorant plumage is the most expensive and the heaviest, pound for pound, in the world because of its very high beauty content. It is also remarkable that if you drop a cormorant off the Tower of Pisa in a vacuum, it follows a rapid perpendicular arc towards th

Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-10 Thread Darren Addy
Where did you mine that little nugget from? I have the feeling this thread is not going to pan out. On 9/10/13, Larry Colen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 09:08:49PM -0400, John wrote: >> Which weighs more a pound of gold or a pound of feathers? > > Feathers, but that was a nice troy. > >> >>

Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-10 Thread Larry Colen
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 09:08:49PM -0400, John wrote: > Which weighs more a pound of gold or a pound of feathers? Feathers, but that was a nice troy. > > On 9/10/2013 7:35 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 01:48:42PM -0400, John wrote: > >>So much more affordable when you think o

Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-10 Thread John
Which weighs more a pound of gold or a pound of feathers? On 9/10/2013 7:35 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 01:48:42PM -0400, John wrote: So much more affordable when you think of it as costing $430.43 per ounce. The web says that gold is now worth $1,365/oz, so it's not even w

Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-10 Thread Brendan MacRae
Thanks, Larry. I'll look into that. I'm still getting used to gmail. I used to subscribe to the list via my yahoo address. On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote: > testing...1,2,3 ... > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 01:48:42PM -0

Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-10 Thread Brendan MacRae
testing...1,2,3 ... On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 01:48:42PM -0400, John wrote: >> So much more affordable when you think of it as costing $430.43 per ounce. > > The web says that gold is now worth $1,365/oz, so it's not even > worth it's weight in

Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-10 Thread Larry Colen
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 01:48:42PM -0400, John wrote: > So much more affordable when you think of it as costing $430.43 per ounce. The web says that gold is now worth $1,365/oz, so it's not even worth it's weight in gold. unless you're talking 10KT gold, which seems to be about that. http://www.ca

Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-10 Thread John
So much more affordable when you think of it as costing $430.43 per ounce. On 9/9/2013 9:56 PM, Brendan MacRae wrote: it weighs 11.5 pounds. "Photography's greatest handicap is the ease with which the medium as such can be learned. As a result, too many budding neophytes learn to speak the langu

Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-10 Thread Darren Addy
10, 2013 8:42 AM > Subject: Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen > > View of the lens on a camera: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tochi/328150/ > > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:56:05PM -0700, Brendan MacRae wr

Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-10 Thread Rick Womer
No; that's a view of a camera on the lens.   - Original Message - From: Darren Addy To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 8:42 AM Subject: Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen View of the lens on a camera: http://www.flickr.com/photos/

Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-10 Thread Darren Addy
View of the lens on a camera: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tochi/328150/ On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:56:05PM -0700, Brendan MacRae wrote: >> it weighs 11.5 pounds. > > And costs 50465 of them. > > By the way Brendan, it would be improve rea

Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-09 Thread Larry Colen
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:56:05PM -0700, Brendan MacRae wrote: > it weighs 11.5 pounds. And costs 50465 of them. By the way Brendan, it would be improve readability if your .sig started with a line of just "-- \n" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_block http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3676#

Re: Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-09 Thread Brendan MacRae
it weighs 11.5 pounds. "Photography's greatest handicap is the ease with which the medium as such can be learned. As a result, too many budding neophytes learn to speak the language too long before they have anything to say." - Will Connell On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:41 PM, J.C. O'Connell wrote: >

Most expensive used lens Ive ever seen

2013-09-09 Thread J.C. O'Connell
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