Hello folk,
I want to make a couple of points to the group about the lens-test pages that
I put up on the internet.
Firstly, I started these before I found those excellent tests performed by a
group member and which many of us put high reliance on, and before I found
other excellent pages of lens and body data on OM gear. My intention is not
to compete in any way with those excellent works. Rather, since the
information I post was once available in shops and maybe in some places
still in libraries, I want to continue the availability to interested (OM)
photographers. I see them (the pages) just as another dimension to the
resources that this group has available to it and I hope people find them of
some use. Not replacing or competing, but augmenting.
Secondly, those pages ( I think excepting those from Modern Photography)
are still subject to copyright. I have taken steps to protect myself from
discovery by the copyright owner, by placing them in a server directory which
search engines are supposed to not enter. There's a special code ISPs can
use, and that has been put in place. So I will appreciate it if none of you
place links on your pages to my lens-test directory. If I find links, or search
engine data that show they have been "discovered" I will probably delete the
pages.
I believe I am doing no harm to the copyright holder. They have ceased to
advertise that people can buy reprints, and have not listed the tests for quite
some time as far as I am aware. I get no financial reward for displaying the
pages (the reverse, actually), and am not denying them any income, IMO.
Brian
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