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2004-05-15 Thread Steve Desjardins
I have a colleague here (organic chemist) who got her BS from MIT and her PhD from Caltech. We had to have her pocket protector surgically removed. The part of her education she is proudest of, however, is that she started grad school at Yale, hated it and left. I think she got an MS, but she re

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2004-05-14 Thread Cesar Matamoros II
Watch it now, I went to City College of New York in NYC. We had no football team. Try going to Harlem and calling them geeks :-) The only team to win the NIT and NCAA in basketball the same year, César Panama City, Florida -Original Message- From: Dan Matyola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2004-05-14 Thread Peter J. Alling
I just love the Florida Institute of Technology's football jersey with the motto "Still Undefeated"... Dan Matyola wrote: REALgeek schools don't have football teams! Peter J. Alling wrote: Georgia Tech. only "thinks" they're as good a MIT... (I know that'll get me in trouble but "cest la vie").

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2004-05-14 Thread Dan Matyola
REALgeek schools don't have football teams! Peter J. Alling wrote: Georgia Tech. only "thinks" they're as good a MIT... (I know that'll get me in trouble but "cest la vie").

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2004-05-14 Thread Peter J. Alling
Georgia Tech. only "thinks" they're as good a MIT... (I know that'll get me in trouble but "cest la vie"). Doug Franklin wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2004 13:33:30 -0400, Peter J. Alling wrote: or my personal favorites smoots 0.0094018 to 0.0264426 smoots. [...] SMC-Pentax DA 0.0094018 to 0.0264426

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2004-05-14 Thread jaalmanza
> or my personal favorites smoots > > 0.0094018 to 0.0264426 smoots. > > Then for greater exposure accuracy insted of f stops lets use T stops. > > So let me present the > > SMC-Pentax DA 0.0094018 to 0.0264426 smoot T-4 AL ED zoom. So a 10'^2 dorm room would be 0.0094018 smoots squared? How

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2004-05-14 Thread Peter J. Alling
These conversions are silly lets measure lenses in meaningful units angstroms so it's a 160,000,000 to 450,000,000 angstrom lens or maybe calibers (for you gun enthusiasts) 0.6299213 to 1.7716535 caliber or my personal favorites smoots 0.0094018 to 0.0264426 smoots. Then for greater exposure accura

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2004-05-13 Thread Nenad Djurdjevic
AM Subject: Re: Quick DA question... > See why some of us detest this equivalent focal length stuff? > > The lens is exactly what it is advertised as. A 16-45mm lens. However, if you > mean is it equivalent to a 24-68mm on 35mm camera when used on an *istD? Yes it is. > >

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2004-05-13 Thread graywolf
See why some of us detest this equivalent focal length stuff? The lens is exactly what it is advertised as. A 16-45mm lens. However, if you mean is it equivalent to a 24-68mm on 35mm camera when used on an *istD? Yes it is. Timothy Sherburne wrote: Hello all... The advertised focal length of P

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2004-05-13 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Timothy Sherburne" Subject: Quick DA question... > > Hello all... > > The advertised focal length of Pentax's DA zoom is 16mm to 45mm. Am I > correct to assume that the lengths reflect the 1.5x "conversion"? In other

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2004-05-13 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Timothy Sherburne wrote: > The advertised focal length of Pentax's DA zoom is 16mm to 45mm. Am I > correct to assume that the lengths reflect the 1.5x "conversion"? In other > words, I wouldn't end up with a 24-68 when paired with a *istD. The advertised focal length is the tr