I was going to drop out of this, but this is too much:

"Cover2Cover" wrote in message
...
When I say bashers I am talking about all the unsubstantiated claims and
bs made
by a few, they know who they are, who have decided they have issues with
Stellarvue's scopes.

bs? unsubstantiated? I claimed they put MV filters on objectives without
disclosing it. That is an historical fact. I claimed they had a vignetted
objective. They did.

I am wondering why this 102D filtering issue has come up at this time
though, the
102D is no longer made this way. It sort of sounded like that little
tidbit that
Valery keeps reminding us about... the EDT, again, history.

History is history Jon but some people have to move forward at some point.
I just
didn't get the reason for the query.

You seem to want to have it both ways. First you say it never
happened.("unsubstantiated claims and bs") Then you claim that it is just
"history" and therefore not important.

There is an old quote that "those who look only in the past lose one eye,
but those who never look to the past lose both eyes." So what is the history
with SV?

(1) Vignetting the objective to reduce color.

(2) Putting MV filters on objectives and covering it up with a bunch of
"attenuated" mumo jumbo.

(3) The "EDT" misleading mumbo jumbo.

(4) Claiming color reduction is due to "proprietary design" and claiming
there is nothing like it in "conventional optics" when in fact SV had
absolutely nothing new (and there are no great "proprietary" secrets in lens
design).

(5) Never once coming clean and stating the truth on the website ie, never
have I seen, "These serial numbers should have the baffle replaced." or
"Some may have been confused by the term EDT. The truth is." or even, "we
reduce false color by filtering it with a filter applied to the objective."

I won't even go into some of the ridiculous posts made here by and for SV.

Yes, with a track record like that, some are going to be suspicious of the
company. It is not bashing. I just don't trust them. And while many of the
SV crowd are wonderful people who enjoy many telescopes, I find the most
ridiculous observing claims ("I think I spotted one of Mar's moons through a
fast 4" achro") and most obnoxious bashing of Synta scopes and most silly
equipment claims ("my SV achro doesn't have any false color") come from the
SV fringe.

And I have yet to see SV lift a finger to correct the nonsense that goes out
there, including on the SV group where Vic is a regular.

With a history like that, yes, people are going to be suspicious.

No malice intended.

Rarely is that said without a threat being implied.

I'm out of here for now.

Clear Skies

Chuck Taylor
Do you observe the moon?
Try the Lunar Observing Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lunar-observing/