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Re: Lens manufacturing

  • From: Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: Lens manufacturing
  • Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 08:55:24 -0600
>Thanks Greg - the whole site is very cool. It caused quite a negative
>productivity-hit at work.

  I'm very sorry for that :)

>There is a lot of heating and cooling happening to make lenses. It amazes
>me they can do all that work, and we can still afford to buy the end result.

  Volume, volume, volume.  :)

  Though the lens they show being assembled
in the second half of the tour is probably $5000.
The consumer type 35-80 zooms are probably
hot glued together by robots :)

Greg