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Originally posted by Psychophant:
We are not part of the marketing campaign (unlike the other parts of the site), we are a service.

Huh? What? My legs aren't helping sell Gibson's books?

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You in the camp that the Olympus Zuiko OM 50mm f2.8 macro's one of the sharpest lenses around?

I actually like its luminosity, though I do not feel qualified to make a wider criticism. I was actually looking for cleaning suggestions for the inner lens...

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Huh? What? My legs aren't helping sell Gibson's books?

Unless the Danish version has your legs in the cover, I have to say no. They make us stay and keep visiting, so they play a role in the board, however.

Condensing my view, softly-moderated boards become social circles, non-moderated boards usually become wastelands or playgrounds, strictly moderated boards stay focused but boring, or they are simply boring.

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Originally posted by Psychophant:

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You in the camp that the Olympus Zuiko OM 50mm f2.8 macro's one of the sharpest lenses around?

I actually like its luminosity, though I do not feel qualified to make a wider criticism. I was actually looking for cleaning suggestions for the inner lens...

Fungus or dust? I've heard "don't touch it", "ammonia and peroxide", "smash the lens to pieces and have a priest exorcise it because it'll possess all your gear and turn it evil" and so on.

Dust and finger grease from a previous unsuccesful cleaning attempt.

Dry canned air, a q-tip with methanol (there were other solvents proposed, but they could attack the coating) and another blast of canned air to blow the q-tip fibers away.

The joys of thread jacking when the moderator is on your side...

Man, I've never been that worried about bein' gentle with cleaning fingerprints.

I've used T-shirts, neck ties, napkins. Then again, Pentax's SMC is a damned good coating, quite tough.

Lens-cleaning tissue with isopropyl is good. The best microfibre cloth I've found isn't some fifteen-dollar, camera store affair, but a supermarket item that sells for three dollars and goes by the brand name of "Mr. Squeaky" - because it's a loose weave, it actually lifts and transfers fingerprint grease to other parts of the cloth, as opposed to smearing it around.

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Originally posted by Psychophant:
We are not part of the marketing campaign (unlike the other parts of the site), we are a service.

I don't think marketing needs to be (nor can be anymore) limited to a company attempting to sell a consumer a product. It is multi-faceted and now we (WGB) are a place where the consumer can interact with the product.

Also, we are a form of publicity which, to me, is part of integrated marketing communications.

As to NGB, I am still fairly certain they are wholly comprised of elves and goth chicks.