Originally posted by Frogfish You missed one Rio - there is also FLA Prime : this is where a shooter is addicted to one focal length, grainbelt above comes close to this with his 35. One focal length for virtually everything.
That's
FLA Type II or maybe a separate sub-species,
FLA Type IIc:
Accumulates primes of one and only one focal-length. Like if I threw out everything but my 26 (currently) 50mm lenses, alas. No 49's, no 51's, none of that crap. And we might have
FLA Type IV:
Measures the exact focal length of each lens. I've read that the FA50/1.4 is actually a 49/1.5. Wouldn't it be terrible if a Tak 35/3.5 measured at 33mm (discard) and a Mir-1 37/2.8 measured at 35.5mm (include)?
Originally posted by Ira It's just a stupid eagle, and if you went out shooting those, you should have the right lens on there anyway.
We campered to Skagway Alaska a few years ago, settled into a nearby campground for a few days. At first it was, "WOW! LOOK AT THAT BALD EAGLE!" After a couple days it was, "Oh yeah, another eagle, [yawn]." And me with only a P&S. Bother.
Originally posted by paperbag846 If you want every focal length, buy a zoom... it makes no sense to me to fill in every little gap.
We'll have none of that 'reasonable' foolishness here, grasshopper! This is a discussion amongst hardcore optics junkies. We *know* what it's like to have empty gaps, to *need* to fill those gaps. It's like back in the days when I did manual labor at a warehouse across from a Kaiser Gravel yard -- all those trucks going by with their
FIND A NEED AND FILL IT emblems. We rewrote that as
FIND A HOLE AND FILL IT. We're talking MISSING LINKS here. It's serious. It's addictive. If you count enlarger-projector-oddity lenses, it's not too expensive, either. Or so I tell my slender wallet...
Last edited by RioRico; 01-20-2011 at 03:18 PM.