Kamaras et al. Reply: The Comment by Orenstein andRapkine makes the point that the infrared reflectance of high-TV superconductors is affected by crystal anisotropy in a sample of large randomly oriented grains. They suggest that the reflectance can be modeled with use of a simple Drude dielectric function for the a~b plane,with plasma frequency co p = 2.5 eV (20000 cm -1 ) and inverse lifetime l/r=0.6eV (5000 cm" 1 ) (T = 1X10~1 5 sec). This Drude dielectric function is characterized by a mode at zero frequency, broadened to -1/T by scattering processes.Although the point about anisotropy is valid (as seen already by fits to optical data obtained either by averaging reflectances 1 or from an effective-medium treatment 2 ), we disagree strongly with the use of a Drude dielectric function to describe the infrared spectrum. Considerable evidence points to a strong non-Drude absorption in the mid infrared in the high-7 c superconductors.In the Drude model, the same relaxation time governs the dc conductivity, 7 sample found a free-carrier contribution characterized (at 100 K) by ©p-0.8 eV and l/r=0.03 eV. The large l/r=0.6 eV used by Orenstein and Rapkine and others 1,2 ' 9,10 gives an unphysical mean free path, /= S^TS =2 A, using vf =2x 10 7 cm/sec.