Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-26 Thread Steve Desjardins
I always enjoyed Ferengi and (especially) the rules of acquisition.

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-25 Thread Steve Desjardins
He doesn't have the lobes for it. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/24/2004 1:19:16 PM >>> Ferengi? Bruce Saturday, July 24, 2004, 6:13:55 AM, you wrote: >> > What you all don't realise is that the Klingons have landed and are >> > slowly infiltrating society disguised as Norwegians. >> > >> > Pt'aa

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-24 Thread Norm Baugher
William Robb wrote: From: "Amita Guha" I thought Cotty looked more like an Andorrian. He doesn't have enough hair to be an Andorrian. Truthfully, he doesn't have the gross little feelers on his head either. He does Bill, he does, but he keeps them well hidden.

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-24 Thread William Robb
- Original Message - From: "Amita Guha" Subject: RE: Many lenses; which too keep? > > I thought Cotty looked more like an Andorrian. > > He doesn't have enough hair to be an Andorrian. > Truthfully, he doesn't have the gross little feelers on hi

RE: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-24 Thread Amita Guha
> > What you all don't realise is that the Klingons have landed and are > > slowly infiltrating society disguised as Norwegians. > > > > Pt'aak! > > > > Cotty! You're blowing both your and our disguise. If you go on like > > this, we might have to start from Ulan Bator AGAIN. > > I thought Cott

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-24 Thread Cotty
On 23/7/04, William Robb, discombobulated, offered: >> What you all don't realise is that the Klingons have landed and are >> slowly infiltrating society disguised as Norwegians. >> >> Pt'aak! >> >> Cotty! You're blowing both your and our disguise. If you go on like >> this, we might have to start

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread DagT
På 23. jul. 2004 kl. 17.04 skrev Cotty: On 23/7/04, Jostein, discombobulated, offered: I think there's only four of us posting here at the moment, btw. DagT, Pål, and myself, and now Toralf. The world in general needs more Norwegians. :-) What you all don't realise is that the Klingons have landed

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Cotty
On 23/7/04, Jostein, discombobulated, offered: >I think there's only four of us posting here at the moment, btw. DagT, >Pål, and myself, and now Toralf. The world in general needs more >Norwegians. :-) What you all don't realise is that the Klingons have landed and are slowly infiltrating society

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Toralf Lund
Jens Bladt wrote: A 28-80mm (power)zoom - you know, the one a lot of people seem to hate. No reason to hate it. It's not as sharp as (my) Tokina 2.6-2.8 ATX PRO II 28-70. But befor I bought the Tokina I tested the two lenses Petnax 28-80 vs Tokina 28-70. I could not see the difference in resol

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Toralf Lund
frank theriault wrote: --- Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. I just subscribed to this list. Hi, Toralf, First, welcome to the list. Thanks. Hope you enjoy your stay, and stay for a long time. Actually, you may not know it, but you're in for life. One can't actually unsubscribe from

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Toralf Lund
Jostein wrote: Hi Toralf. Welcome aboard. Thankyou... I agree that one of the 50mm is an obvious candidate to sell. Also, your two telezooms have overlapping ranges. Seems a bit redundant to keep both of those, unless the 70-210 gives very much better quality than the 100-300 within it's range.

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Toralf Lund
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Many lenses; which too keep? --- Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. I just subscribed to this list. Hi, Toralf, First, welcome to the list. Hope you enjoy your stay, and stay for a long time. Actually, you may not know it, but you're in fo

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Toralf Lund
Boris Liberman wrote: Hi! TL> OK. I just subscribed to this list. Thought I might start by telling you TL> about my most recent acquisition. I just bought an ME Super and a couple TL> of lenses at a net auction, on a time of the year when not a lot of TL> people care to place bids at such sites, I'

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Keith Whaley
Jostein wrote: Hi, Dan. On first thought, I was pretty sure you were right, ans it turns out you're pretty close. In the 1990 USA population census, 3,9 million people in the USA claimed Norwegian heritage. That's 1 million short of Norway. Minnesota is one of the states they are most numerous, bu

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Jostein
uly 23, 2004 4:31 PM Subject: Re: Many lenses; which too keep? Go to Minnesota. I believe that there are more Norwegians there than in Norway. Jostein wrote: >I think there's only four of us posting here at the moment, btw. DagT, >Pål, and myself, and now Toralf. The world in general needs more >Norwegians. :-) > >

RE: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Jens Bladt
That's a good one :-)) Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Steve Desjardins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 23. juli 2004 15:44 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Many lenses; which too keep? Keep them all. The good one

RE: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Jens Bladt
>A 28-80mm (power)zoom - you know, the one a lot of people seem to >hate. No reason to hate it. It's not as sharp as (my) Tokina 2.6-2.8 ATX PRO II 28-70. But befor I bought the Tokina I tested the two lenses Petnax 28-80 vs Tokina 28-70. I could not see the difference in resolution until I enlarg

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Don Sanderson
e stuff that goes on around here! ;-) Again, welcome! Don -Original message- From: frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:37:52 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Many lenses; which too keep? > --- Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK.

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Go to Minnesota. I believe that there are more Norwegians there than in Norway. Jostein wrote: I think there's only four of us posting here at the moment, btw. DagT, Pål, and myself, and now Toralf. The world in general needs more Norwegians. :-)

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Jostein
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Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread frank theriault
--- Tim Sherburne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Welcome to the list, Toralf! Keep'em all, and just > buy more... :) > Yeah, Just wait until Toralf grasps the concept of "enablement". Hee hee! cheers, frank = "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fe

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Tim Sherburne
Welcome to the list, Toralf! Keep'em all, and just buy more... :) t On 7/23/04 4:35, Toralf Lund wrote: > OK. I just subscribed to this list. Thought I might start by telling you > about my most recent acquisition. I just bought an ME Super and a couple > of lenses at a net auction, on a time o

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread frank theriault
--- Jostein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Toralf. > > Welcome aboard. > > With a name like yours and working for a > Kongsberg-based company, I > hope it's not jumping to conclusions to assume > another Norwegian on > the List? :-) Lord, no!! Please say it ain't so. OTOH, maybe Jostien isn

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Steve Desjardins
Keep them all. The good ones you want to keep, and the bad ones aren't worth selling.

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Jostein
Hi Toralf. Welcome aboard. I agree that one of the 50mm is an obvious candidate to sell. Also, your two telezooms have overlapping ranges. Seems a bit redundant to keep both of those, unless the 70-210 gives very much better quality than the 100-300 within it's range. Since one is autofocus and t

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread frank theriault
--- Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. I just subscribed to this list. Hi, Toralf, First, welcome to the list. Hope you enjoy your stay, and stay for a long time. Actually, you may not know it, but you're in for life. One can't actually unsubscribe from this list. You've now been s

Re: Many lenses; which too keep?

2004-07-23 Thread Toralf Lund
Toralf Lund wrote: OK. I just subscribed to this list. Thought I might start by telling you about my most recent acquisition. I just bought an ME Super and a couple of lenses at a net auction, on a time of the year when not a lot of people care to place bids at such sites, I'm assuming, so the