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Nostrobino wrote:

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In article ,
Tony Polson wrote:


Since there is no accepted definition of a "prime" lens we should just
drop the term, as it serves only to confuse.

Feel free to go ahead. The rest of the world will carry on using it.


"The rest of the world" is defined as the few dozen people who post in a
couple of newsgroups?

Well, if you include some of the more common photo magazines. That's where
I got it from.

I'm genuinely sorry to hear that. As I mentioned recently in this thread,
Pop Photo has on two or three occasions misused "prime" in this way in their
captions, including at least once on a cover caption. As far as I know, they
have never called fixed focal length lenses "primes" in any of the articles
or columns themselves, so I presume those occurrences were the work of some
less punctilious caption writer.

N.