Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/26
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At 9:35 PM -0700 10/26/00, Roger Beamon wrote:
>What's a slide rule?
>
>
>On 26 Oct 2000, Johnny Deadman wrote, at least in part:
>
>> I'm a big fan of slide rules. I've started buying them too.
>> Imagine how much you would freak someone out if you pulled out
>> napiers bones instead of a calculator! They will go nicely with my
>> super graphic, methinks.
>>
>> can you get an aspheric slide rule??
>
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It's a rule that has some mobility; eg - thou shalt use a tripod and
a film with a sensitivity no higher than 50ISO, and your Summicron
ASPH at no aperture larger than f/2.8 or smaller than f/8. This rule
can be slid all the way to: thou mayest use your Summarit wide open
with HIE unfiltered and push it past 3200EI at 1/4sec on a rocking
boat, if that will get the picture. Glow, nothing but glow!
We could all be slide rule collectors.
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