[W&B] Now to find a use for it . . .

[Dan Colucci]

MZ - do have any advertisements that support your claim of the olive's size ?

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From: woodandbrass-bounces at kjsl.com on behalf of Milan Zahorcak
Sent: Fri 3/23/2007 6:40 PM
To: Wood & Brass
Subject: [W&B] Now to find a use for it . . .





Greetings,

I recently picked up a single-element meniscus lens, more properly referred to as a Wollaston-type meniscus lens.

By itself that's really no big deal, although there is a bit of lore associated with it because the Wollaston was the first useful photographic lens.  The curious thing is that the Wollaston meniscus lens was invented about 1812 (by Wollaston, of course) for other reasons, 27-years before Daguerre did his thing.  This one was probably used for a camera obscura.

The seller described it as being a small lens, but it turns out to be a SMALL lens . . .

 

Now for those of you who wonder about how big the olive is, it is just a ordinary Extra Large olive - two of which make for a very nice vodka martini and automatically limit the amount of vodka that I can put into my favorite martini glass . . . three of them and it becomes vodka flavored olives.

This is, of course, the US Extra Large (7/8") sized olive, not the European Extra Large size.  Depending on the number per kilogram, the Europeans among us would call it either a Jumbo, Extra Jumbo or Giant.  A quick count (66 in my 21 ounce bottle) indicates that this is actually a Giant olive in European terms which makes the lens sound bigger than it really is.
 
Isn't this fascinating?
 
mz
 
 
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