No, nothing like the first to exist. But the first I’ve owned (I’ve had two that include 14mm since pretty much the beginning; that’s the angle of view of a 28mm on old 35mm film—not all that wide. 12mm is fairly wide, and they’ve been common for a while, and there are one or two good 7-14mm zooms, too.
But a 7.5mm f/2 for half or less of the price of some of the good alternatives was very interesting. Too soon to really know about performance, but it’s a nice wide lens!
This morning. Out at Siemens office in Minnetonka.
The code from the main project I worked on out in Marlboro (for Digital Equipment Corporation Large Computer Software Engineering) is up on the web!
This proves that I really have been using source control systems since the 1980s (I think this was DEC CMS), and that I wrote BLISS code, and that I wrote many metric fuck-tons of comments.
Possibly the weirdest bit is this floating-point number conversion code. It handles pdp-11/vax 32 and 64 bit floating point, and PDP-10 36 and 72 bit floating point, and can convert anything to anything (within format limitations). It’s at http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/bb-r775d-bm_tops20_ks_upd_4/01/sources/dixfp.bli.html
Although the declaration of the character tables for various character sets might be a runner-up. (Bliss had far and away the most powerful macro facilities of any language I’ve ever used.)
Lydy came home this evening wearing the completely restrung Angel!
We haven’t done a final accounting yet, but my best estimate right now is that we are, in fact, completely funded (any excess goes to Lydy, as initially announced, that being the simplest way to handle it in accordance with the initially-announced goal to “Do Something Nice for Lydy”).