OMICRON- is it a lens or a dangerous virus?
Dec 5, 2021 15:25:14 #
wolfMark wrote:
I wonder if they'll skip 'Omega' because of all of the old enlargers out there.
What about the wristwatches?
Dec 5, 2021 15:59:38 #
If you collect old gear:
Remember the Koni-OMEGA- rapid, a real neat ergonomic medium-format press camera? Or the original model, made of boiler-plate and cast iron- like don't drop it on your foot kinda camera, I always thought it was made out of left-over enlarger parts where metal was rationed during WW II. Or the world mots awkward TLR, the Omegaflex that was totally ergonomic if you had 3 hands.
Remember the Koni-OMEGA- rapid, a real neat ergonomic medium-format press camera? Or the original model, made of boiler-plate and cast iron- like don't drop it on your foot kinda camera, I always thought it was made out of left-over enlarger parts where metal was rationed during WW II. Or the world mots awkward TLR, the Omegaflex that was totally ergonomic if you had 3 hands.
Dec 5, 2021 16:24:24 #
OK, my dears. Time for a Greek lesson. In Greek -- and it has slopped over into the English language, the garbage dump of all sorts of languages (LOL. Makes our language the richest in the world) -- "micron" means little and "mega" means big and modifies whatever they are attached to. Thus "omicron" means "little o" (15th letter in Greek alphabet) and "omega" means "big o" (the 24th and last letter in the Greek alphabet). Thus NOBODY has control of either word and can be used by whoever wants to. BTW, I think "xi" was skipped since it has no cognate in any other language, not for PC reasons. But, "One never knows, do one." (Fats Waller -- I quote this wisdom all the time)
Dec 5, 2021 17:11:42 #
Omicron is also a movie.....
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191326/?ref_=tt_rvi_tt_i_2
BTW omicron = moronic anagram if you haven't heard by now
delta + omicron = media control
Saw this post on Tw - funny....
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191326/?ref_=tt_rvi_tt_i_2
BTW omicron = moronic anagram if you haven't heard by now
delta + omicron = media control
Saw this post on Tw - funny....
Dec 5, 2021 17:14:59 #
E.L.. Shapiro wrote:
If you collect old gear:
Remember the Koni-OMEGA- rapid, a real neat ergonomic medium-format press camera? Or the original model, made of boiler-plate and cast iron- like don't drop it on your foot kinda camera, I always thought it was made out of left-over enlarger parts where metal was rationed during WW II. Or the world mots awkward TLR, the Omegaflex that was totally ergonomic if you had 3 hands.
Remember the Koni-OMEGA- rapid, a real neat ergonomic medium-format press camera? Or the original model, made of boiler-plate and cast iron- like don't drop it on your foot kinda camera, I always thought it was made out of left-over enlarger parts where metal was rationed during WW II. Or the world mots awkward TLR, the Omegaflex that was totally ergonomic if you had 3 hands.
So you need a Sony Alpha to make it the beginning and the end.
Dec 5, 2021 19:20:32 #
Dec 5, 2021 19:40:20 #
M1911 wrote:
I thought Omicron was an anagram of moronic.
It is.
Things can be more than one thing in this world.
Dec 5, 2021 20:50:01 #
Dec 5, 2021 23:44:02 #
Wyantry
Loc: SW Colorado
rmalarz wrote:
And that's a fact, Jack.
--Bob
--Bob
And it is all amusing that his name, in the Chinese manner, is actually “Xi, Jinping” (last name first).
Or as we put first names before last names: “Jinping Xi”.
“Xi” being the LAST name!
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