XPost: rec.photo.digital 
 From: alan.browne@FreeLunchVideotron.ca 
  
 Lionel wrote: 
  
 > Kibo informs me that Alan Browne  
 > stated that: 
 > 
 > 
 >>Lionel wrote: 
 > 
 > [G3 add-on lenses] 
 > 
 >>>No, but you can attach various lenses to one, & many people will see 
 >>>that as being 'interchangable', & IMO, it's just a another example of 
 >>>how the fuzziness of the scope in the charter will cause confusion & 
 >>>friction. 
 >> 
 >>Adding a lens element is NOT interchangeable. Degrading a lens by 
 >>such artifice is anathema to the whole point of interchangeable 
 >>lenses. 
 > 
 > 
 > And you're happy to spend the rest of your life explaining that to 
 > random newbies who feel that their G3 & collection of add-on lenses 
 > *are* on-topic, according to the charter? 
  
 I wouldn't bother.  The notion is indefensible.  As your other 
 post points out, these additional lenses are "add on" or 
 "converters" of the lens in place. 
  
 Further, the G3 fails in that it is not a reflex and not a 
 rangefinder (rangefinder has specific meaning with respect to how 
 focus is achieved). 
  
 >>See my other posts today on that subject.  The name doesn't have 
 >>to be perfectly logical 
 > 
 > No, but it should be as close as is practical, & it should definitely 
 > describe the *intent* of the newsgroup. 
  
 It *is* as close as practical IMO. 
  
 Cheers, 
 Alan 
  
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