Hey Bill, What's going on there ?

[ruben]

I am somewhat lost within those bits of info you provide. True, I have always been quite bad in maths, but


What this:

Canon lenses used to discover new planet
"Wednesday, May 24, 2006 | by Rob Galbraith
A team of astronomers using a telescope comprised of two Canon EF 200mm f/1.8L lenses has discovered a Jupiter-sized planet located 600 light years from Earth. The telephoto twins are the front end of a system that can measure dips in light output from a distant star, which suggests the presence of a passing planet..."


plus this:

Canon EF 200mm f/1.8L discontinued
Friday, August 15, 2003 | by Rob Galbraith
Canon has discontinued the EF 200mm f/1.8L, says Canon USA's Chuck Westfall: "There may be a few new EF 200/1.8L lenses in stock at various dealers around the world, but once they are gone, that lens is history. It will not go back into production and there is no immediate replacement for it."


plus this:

Canon to halt development of film cameras
Reuters
Thursday, May 25, 2006; 7:26 AM
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Canon Inc. (7751.T) said on Thursday that it would halt development of new film cameras to focus resources on digital models, the latest sign of the rapidly fading role of film in photography...


equals to ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?


Let's have a Poll:

a) Scientists start mooving towards pinhole cameras

b) Astronomy is comming to its end. Who is next ?

c) It's all a Pentagon conspiracy

d) Camera leading manufacturers are pushing the market in order to kill smaller competitors

e) [blank, the reader should fill]

😀



Cheers,
Ruben

:angel:

 

[Magnus]

e) ... have another "Jack" and think about it all again .....

 

[Jocko]

Ruben, I always enjoy your posts and I may well be missing the point of this one, but...

Since 1992 I have been a columnist for Astronomy Now, one of the world's leading space science journals.

I can thus assure you that film photography and conventional optical systems play an ever smaller part in modern scientific astronomy. I would venture to suggest that astronomers went digital before almost anyone else. Which is not to say that traditional equipment has no role, particularly in the hands of amateurs who still make major contributions to astronomical knowledge.

But... it is certainly yesterday's news.

Cheers, Ian

 

[Flinor]

Reuters has since corrected the item about Canon film camera development to ad the word "considering."

 

[ch1]

Ruben, I always enjoy your posts and I may well be missing the point of this one, but...

Since 1992 I have been a columnist for Astronomy Now, one of the world's leading space science journals.

I can thus assure you that film photography and conventional optical systems play an ever smaller part in modern scientific astronomy. I would venture to suggest that astronomers went digital before almost anyone else. Which is not to say that traditional equipment has no role, particularly in the hands of amateurs who still make major contributions to astronomical knowledge.

But... it is certainly yesterday's news.

Cheers, Ian

Jocko,

Didn't know that - I haven't subscribe to AN for a while but maybe I'll grab a copy off the newstand.

As to astronomy and digital photography - heck, I would hazard to guess that that is where it all started! Kind of hard to get film developed on a Voyager spacecraft! 😉

I think Rueben needs to learn that we who like it use film for fun nowadays - not for necessity! 😀