wildimages@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm a man. I don't like phallic things. Gay men like, but I don't. I like my 35mm style camera and lens because they do the job they were designed for. And that design has NOTHING whatsoever to do with thatever you're talking about, sorry.
Jim
Some people see "phallic symbols" everywhere. - Cars - Church towers - Camera lenses - Cigars - guns
Basically, any 3-D object with an aspect ratio of more than 2:1
This is incredibly selective though: a number 29 bus (single decker) is excluded yet it's actually closer to the shape than a Porche. A biro isn't, yet a Saturn 5 rocket is; A gun is yet a broom-handle isn't.
I pity anyone who thinks a 600mm f4 remotely resembles a todger - frankly I think they need a pretty warped mind ... The shape is totally wrong, being almost conical in aspect once the "hood" is in place. Now the 100-400 ... that's another matter - heck, it even gets longer in use ;o)
I suspect the whole concept tells us more about the observer than anything else. There are basic truths of form and function that have nothing to do with our inner psyche: submarines for instance are not shaped how they are to satisfy some innate insecurity of the Admiral, but because the shape works better, period.
Bob Freud was a perv!
But even Freud said that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. It ain't just beauty that is in the eyes of the beholder.
Don
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