Joseph McAllister wrote:
John, I was in the Navy back in the 60s. When a new version of a lens or
camera came out and was listed in the catalog of new gear, we bought it.
It was my job, when the new stuff arrived, to sit on the loading dock at
the rear of the photolab and use a hammer and a straight slot
screwdriver to drive a hole through the cameras, and through the glass
in the lenses. Watch many a Nikon and lenses die in my hands. It was a
good thing.
The same should be done with the old M42 glass if the owner can't sell
it for the price they want, does not have a public collection of Pentax
memorabilia, or no longer has a camera to use them with. Maybe it will
make the remaining lenses in the world sooo valuable that someone will
build you a digital camera to use them as you wish them used, in
exchange for a couple of spare lenses.
Joseph McAllister
The bottom of the Pacific Ocean is littered with electronic gear the U.S. Navy
no longer wanted, simply because they had some insane idea it should never get
into the hands of civilians.
I had a relative, an officer in the Navy, who spent time in the clink, because
when he was assigned to dump so many perfectly good and essentially new top
quality vacuum tubes into the ocean, he saved one from oblivion, to use in his
ham gear.
To be used in worldwide communication, for the uses most avid hams do, is a good
thing, and no commercial benefit derives from it.
But, the Navy said Destroy It, and he didn't. So he paid for it...
Yeah, I know what Joseph means... The U.S. Navy was/is an ass when it comes to
logical decisions of that ilk...
keith whaley
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