POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Unfortunate : Re: Unfortunate Server Time
28 Jun 2024 22:30:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Unfortunate  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 3 Oct 2016 14:48:35
Message: <57f2a803$1@news.povray.org>

> I love my macro lens.
>
> People ask me "why did you spend all this money on a real camera, when
> your phone can do exactly the same thing?" And then I show them pictures
> like this, and I say "can your phone do THIS?" And they're all like
> "Wow... Erm, no. It can't." And then they go away.
>
> Sadly, last week I dropped my macro lens on a concrete floor, and now it
> doesn't work. It is at least insured, so it won't cost me anything to
> get it fixed. But still, they're telling me 5 to 6 weeks to fix it... :-(

I know the feeling.  My wide angle lens got into a fight with a 
cobblestone plaza in Mexico, and the the plaza won.

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