Re: Collimation difference--??

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wfoley2) wrote:
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>For those of us who are retired and on a fixed income, tools are an 
>extra expense which we can avoid by training our eye to better 
>gauge centering without these tools. 

You can make a tool for no money -- you don't have to buy one.  Any
35mm film canister (that most film-processing places are only too
happy to give away) can be made into a tool to keep your eye centered.


>And in the case of laser 
>collimaters, the problem has, on occasion, arisen as to the collimation
>ot the tool itself.  

I don't advocate the use of lasers -- in fact in many people's hands
they do more harm than good.  Nils's article goes into this in some
detail.

Regards,
Gary
Gary Seronik

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