[OT] Cameras (was Re: Why is Python popular, while Lisp and Scheme aren't?)

[Frodo Morris]

Fernando Pérez wrote:
> P&S cameras are ok, but their _control_ is fairly limited to none. Some (like 
> the Oly Stylus Epic) have excellent optics, others have crappy optics (pretty 
> much all zoom cameras, you just can't make a decent zoom of that size, 
> physics gets in the way). 

Yes you can - the lenses are called telephoto (because the focal planes 
lie outside the optics - a common misconception is that a 'telephoto' is 
any old zoom lens).  I agree you'd probably get something akin to the 
fisheye effect around the edges, but it'd still work :-)

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FM