Tony Flanders wrote:
* Three people (Howard Lester, David Knisely, and me)
after hemming, hawing, and qualifying, come down quite
clearly on the side of aperture. From our point of
view, AFOV is definitely a second-order issue, to
be considered only after first-order issues like
aperture.
Four, actually. I'm not sure why Google is refusing to archive my posts
on this thread, since I don't put that particular header in my posts.
BTW, I don't hem and haw--not on this issue, since I've given it some
thought in the past in response to similar questions.
Brian Tung
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