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  1. Newsgroups: rec.photo
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!cc.curtin.edu.au!zrepachol
  3. From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au
  4. Subject: Re: Plastic Canon
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan22.200434.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
  6. Lines: 16
  7. Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager)
  8. Organization: Curtin University of Technology
  9. References: <nicholson.11@main.mndly.umn.edu> <1993Jan22.002517.29853@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
  10. Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:04:34 GMT
  11.  
  12. In article <1993Jan22.002517.29853@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>, goldis@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Al Goldis) writes:
  13. > In <nicholson.11@main.mndly.umn.edu> nicholson@main.mndly.umn.edu (JOHN JAY NICHOLSON) writes:
  14. > 
  15. ...
  16. > One other thing.  Pros I know used to really moan and groan about the
  17. > plastic lens hoods that most EOS lenses come with.  Now they realize
  18. > they actually protect better than metal because they absorb the impact
  19. > instead of merely transmitting it to the lens.
  20.  
  21. And will take impacts etc that will demolish Al.
  22.  
  23. Question to consider. Have you ever hand torn al-foil? Care to rip a .030"
  24. Carbon-fibre/poly-carbonate sheet with your bare hands?
  25.  
  26. ~Paul
  27.  
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