Oh I misunderstood, I thought you were the author ☺
I believe you're correct about spokes, I've built spoked wheels for motorcycles, what you say makes sense.
What Bill says makes sense too, but how does it help? What action can anyone take?
Are the only options:
1. Conditional collimation as I described (and is there any downside to that other than ipd changes?).
2: Buy Bill's books and hope that you learn something practical.
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Mr. Kelby:
On page 4, Post 79 you wrote to John (Tringa45):
“Do you run around bicycle forums insulting people and telling them they're wrong, then offering people no useful advice other than to buy your books?”
On page 5, post 81 you wrote John:
“2: Buy Bill's books and hope that you learn something practical.”
The only people who have been insulted, are those who fail to read and pay attention. Should I name names?! You want to learn something practical? Where have you been? You apparently find it easier to condemn and spread damning and inaccurate words than do any research of your own.
Had you done so, you would have noticed that John Roberts, from your country, pointed out that I have published the EXACT STEPS to 3-Axis Collimation on THIS VERY FORUM.
As John Wayne has supposedly said:
“I’m only responsible for what I say, not for what YOU understand.”
I have THOROUGHLY EXPLAINED the methodology in repeated articles, Internet posts, and lectures for 45 years. I explained it in my magazine
ATM Journal starting in the early 1990s.
(See attachment #1) I started explaining it on Cloudy Nights in 2004. I started explaining it on BirdForum in 2005. I explained it to all who were interested, while at the collimator, during all my time at Captain’s.
You wonder why I get so emotional?! Well, many people are damaging their expensive binoculars while following the imprudent techniques and contrivances on the Internet and some won’t give it up after all my best efforts have been exhausted! And then, people come out of the woodwork (like you) to act as if I have kept everything a secret to sell a book or two. Yes, it’s frustrating; it’s maddening. Your accusations have been neither honorable nor accurate!
“The enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it’s the ILLUSION of knowledge.” — Dr. Stephen Hawking
And boy do those amateur screw-tweaker thrive on their illusions of collimation! If CoAl is all you need, like Kevin at Oberwerk didn’t understand, you’ll be fine.
BUT THAT’S NOT COLLIMATION, it’s CONDITIONAL ALIGNMENT. And to say it is, may be detrimental to others and the science. Would you call a horse a cow, because they both have 4 legs? Would you call a duckling and eagle, because they both have two wings. Even as forceful as I have been, I still can only make tiny DENTS in the bad science afoot. I am doing the best I can with the most effective method I know. With binocular forums thriving on opinions, you have to use a 20-megaton to do what elsewhere might be done with a flyswatter. I’m just trying the reach the 2-3% who have the interest to care and the intellect to understand. If YOU are offended, I am sorry.
“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who can’t fly.” —Fredrich Nietzsche
But then, I am known for sticking my head on the block for others.
— In a nautical store in a seafaring city, I ignored the money that could be easily made selling, drumroll, please ...
“AUTO-FOCUS BINOCULARS” to people who slept through 7th through 10th grade science, to face the fierce opposition trying to tell my customers the truth—and PROVE IT.
— For many years I have been on the front lines of telling people that Celestron, Meade, Bushnell, TASCO, Minolta, Swift, Jason, and many others
DIDN’T MAKE binoculars or have the infrastructure to do so. Heck, Jason, TASCO, and Bushnell all come out of the same warehouse in Overland Park, Kansas. And even when B&L was the premier binocular manufacturer in the United States, much of their pre-war inventory came from ZEISS. I don’t expect the Aunt Myrtles and Uncle Jesses’ across the heartland to know this. But why shoot me because I do and want to raise the bar of opto-understanding for all?
— I have been trying for years—and, of course, meeting with much resistance—to make people see that AR coatings only have a perceived “tint” that is actually the wavelength reflected, and much of the “Improvement” the observer sees in their new
“UPGRADED” binocular is NOT coming from coatings but baffling, prism shields, edge blackening, size and positioning of the field stops, knife edges on those stops, prism types, slotted prisms (in Porro prism instruments), configuration of the eyepieces, and considerations other than coatings. And all this because so many observers believe if they don’t know about it through their short time bino observing that it must not exist.
Today, I am trying to get people to understand
Spatial and Dioptric Accommodation as mentioned on the last two pages of my front page article in
Times of the Islands (PDF attached #2).
— And I have stood my ground trying to get people to understand that they don’t always see what they think they do. In the last image, both dots are exactly the same brightness; it’s the background that makes them seem of different brightnesses.
And when I’ve licked my wounds from all I am currently trying to do, I’m going to start telling people about
spherochromatism. These days, some folks go weaking the knees if they have a binocular that will focus on the tops of their shoes, oblivious to what they’re sacrificing in distance viewing—where most of the birds are. As Aristotle was prone to say,
“Ain’t no free lunch, Dude!”
And no, I don’t know everything; ‘never claimed to. It’s just that most those who do wouldn’t touch one of these “opinion mills” with a ten-foot pole. Be grateful you have Holger.
Mr. Kelby, I have answered all your charges with text, examples, testimonials, and graphics. I’m going to have to let you say what you want of me. Seeing how I feel confident that you won’t let this go, you seem to be a
TAIL violently upset because you don’t have enough facts in your quiver to
WAG THE DOG! ........... Woof!
If you ever want to be the person you expect me to be, you’ll find my hand outstretched, still.
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