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Old 31-03-2012, 10:48 PM
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love to own one Hans , but not everyone's a millionare....
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward View Post
No. Not snobbish ..in the same way you could make a balsa-wood raft and cross the south pacific... why?

High index glasses make extremely long focal lengths an anachronism.

My old club had a 6" f12 behemoth. might *still* have it...

My AP155 runs rings around it: much easier to mount and better corrected to boot.

Mechanical centration of 9" F18 optics I strongly suspect is an approximation at best.
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