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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WJC" data-source="post: 3619378" data-attributes="member: 25191">Hi Pier:First, let me point out that your snippet was incomplete. The very next sentence said: “Let me see: there are new concepts and statements in there that have probably never been in print, as well as the largest treatise on binocular collimation EVER offered to the consumer, and they already knew all of that!?” And, by your recent comment, it would appear YOU knew all of that, as well. If you did, why have you been keeping us in the dark? It was less than two weeks from my revealing the concept of “conditional alignment,”—usually unconsidered by optical PhDs—to the folks at the College of Optical Sciences at UA, that I was invited by the SPIE to lecture on the subject in 2012. And you already knew that? And how important it was to know? Secondly, regarding the quality of YOUR copy of the book, you can return it for a replacement. AS SOON as I got a copy to sign that was inferior, I posted comment # 38, which starts with: mayday, mayday, and continues in part with: AT LEAST 1/3 OF THE GRAPHICS ARE SO OVER-SATURATED WITH BLACK INK, THEY CANNOT ILLUSTRATE WHAT THEY NEED TO ILLUSTRATE!!!Tell me, Pier, how could I have been more up front concerning that, as well? Possibly I am wrong, but I get the impression you are upset because in didn’t fall to my knees over the wonders of your Carson cleaning solution and that nothing I could say or do would erase the horrors of pointing out the realities of that matter. So, if your aim is to ignore many previously unspoken truths, ignore plain and immediate warnings over some of the copies printed that YOU might sound the alarm to others, or overlook the printer’s return policy so you might have something to be snarky about, please feel free to do so.Not liking a book is a reality that all authors must face. For you not liking the book, I am truly sorry. I only take exception to your leaving the path of an honest and thorough representation of the facts.And, if now, for setting the record straight, you must esteem me to be your enemy, I’m afraid you’re in error ... again.And having just read the above comment, I would like to add that if you were to ask those mentioned, you would find that I have spent several hundred hours over the last 15 years doing exactly that, sitting up at all hours of the night—with a workday looming—to accurately answer a question that had been fowled up by some optical wannabe seeking adoration from a given forum. I have cannibalized my binoculars to send a part to a member in need in a foreign country. I have given way new binoculars, still in the box, to aid another. But, you don’t know any of that because you seem to be one of those people who comes to a forum “with guns blazing.” There is a very good reason why we are born with TWO ears but only ONE mouth.</blockquote>

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