Re: [APML] Gas hypered Velvia claim on Usefilm?

["Bert Katzung" <katzung1@attbi.com>]

You would think he would at least come up with reasonable equipment and film
descriptions! 6400 ISO for hypered velvia! Anyone who would believe him
would believe that I got a rabbit and the moon in the same shot at (the
bottom of):
http://www.astronomy-images.com/images/Solarsystem/lunar-eclipse.15May03.htm
I've also e-mailed usefilm about this jerk.
Bert

Bert Katzung
katzung1@attbi.com
www.astronomy-images.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Reeves" <reeves10@swbell.net>
To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] Gas hypered Velvia claim on Usefilm?


>
> Taras,
>
> Well spotted.  This guy is full of cr*p - a Meade 8" SCT can't capture
> anywhere near this field of view, quite apart from the nonsense about
> hypered Velvia.  This is a straight rip-off of Jerry Lodriguss's shot, and
> he's even had the cheek to put his own copyright on it!!
> http://www.astropix.com/HTML/A_FALL/M31.HTM
>
> Someone like this deserves all he receives - I hope the folks on APML will
> oblige!
>
> Regards
> --Philip
>
> I agree that this looks like a ripped off Lodrigus image.  The story the
guy
> posts about a precision clock drive doesn't pass the smell test either.  I
> only hope Jerry uses the same image marking methods that some other
> well-known top guns do (alter the position of strategic stars to make the
> image unique) so he can nail the SOB.
>
> Robert Reeves
>
>
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