In article , Tony Cooper
wrote:

Here he objects to clinging to rigid definitions and ignoring real
world usage. It seems like just yesterday he was ignoring the real
world usage of "long lens" and clinging to the rigid definition of
"long-focus lens".

you are once again lying about what i said.

i said that people use the term long, long focus and telephoto lens
interchangeably, whether or not it's technically correct, the very
*opposite* of clinging to a rigid definition.

No, no one in the "real world" uses "long-focus lens" interchangeably
with "long lens". Just in your little world of "nope".

yes they definitely do. search for the term long lens and see what
comes up. you are once again, wrong.

"Long lens" is always used in a technically correct way since it is
used to describe what is technically what they consider to be a long
lens.

actually no, since almost all long lenses are actually telephoto. a
long lens that *isn't* a telephoto might exist, but there's no valid
reason, so it's going to be quite a search to find one.