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Old March 29th 13, 02:20 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
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Default Food for thought, camera access to events
On Friday, March 22, 2013 7:46:34 AM UTC-5, George Kerby wrote:
On 3/22/13 3:56 AM, in article

, "David J. Littleboy"

wrote:



"Martin Brown" wrote:



Watch the Olympic opening sequence to see how many morons think a puny

on camera flash can illuminate an olympic stadium at night time.





A joke that was already old when I was young (I heard it around 1966 or so):



Q: What do I set my Instamatic on to take a flash picture of the moon?

A: Infinity.



-- David J. Littleboy

Tokyo, Japan





When working at a local camera store in the 70's we had a lady come in who

had just received a tele lens for Christmas and was befuddled about the "ƒ"

mark on the lens barrel. My buddy tried to explain to the elderly patron

that it was the symbol for infinity. The lady looked befuddled and asked if

that was in feet or meters. Hitch tried to explain that it didn't really

matter because it was simply 'infinite', to which she asked the similar

question, "Is that farther than the moon?".

Infinity measured in miles is approximately 1.6 times farther than infinity measured in meters.