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20-Jun-2007	Dave Beedon

Abuse of a telephoto lens... 20070620_2353

Seattle, Washington

During an impromptu photographic field trip to the shore of Lake Washington in Seattle, I observed this strange behavior from a person that appeared to be normal. Appearances can be deceiving. The man is using a big telephoto lens in an attempt to simulate a macro view of ants! I am seriously considering reporting this shocking mis-use of a sophisticated optical instrument to the people at Canon. Anonymous sources have informed me that this fellow is from Texas, the Land of Big Everything (including blunders). This might explain---but not excuse---the behavior seen here.

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Guest		05-Feb-2009 23:47
You burn them ants until they cry "uncle". Larry, I think you are on to (as opposed to on) something--this looks like a benchmarking exercise to me (optically-speaking).

Guest		17-Nov-2008 09:36
You can burn ants with the Canon Pro 1, but it doesn't work all that well on Uncles...

1moremile		02-Sep-2008 11:03
Hmm. Would you mind sharing the results of the test? My comment no longer makes sense to me, either. The Michigan factor probably plays heavily into this. Without those results we'll never know.

Dave Beedon		21-Jan-2008 07:42
Larry, my Michigan Meaning Extractor has run for hours attempting in vain to determine your point about the "bench field test." Thus I must ask this: are you referring to a test of the bench or of the field or of both or of something else? It is most unsettling that the MME failed, as I just had the fratostatic by-pass circuit re-calibrated.

1moremile		20-Jan-2008 22:50
Looks like a bench field test going on to me.

Jason Anderson		21-Dec-2007 02:54
I've heard you can use a lens like that with the sun to set ants on fire. I would never try it; I don't have a lens like that.

Dave Beedon		19-Dec-2007 05:20
Admitting that one is wrong is an admirable quality in a person.

jCross		26-Nov-2007 18:25
I think that if you would look very closely you could see that the device he is handling (with great skill, I might add) is a lunatropic entrofratoskillic nebulizer sensor (LENS). He just might be saving other near-by agents from an outbreak of intra-ductile indeciso-optical cyanotropic yardarmification (IDIOCY). But I could be wrong.