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

[George Anderson <georgea@cam.org>]

WOW!! What are the odds of catching a rabbit in a moonbeam? And having
it sit still that long. You should send that to Marlin Perkins (?) at
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.  :^)

George Anderson
Montreal Canada

Clear skies and good health
It's wabbit season

Bert Katzung wrote:
> 
> 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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