On 4 Feb 2003 at 13:24, Keith Whaley wrote: > I suppose you'd know, but it isn't the optical engineer that designs > the optical mounts for his lenses...it's the mechanical engineer! It's > HE that arranges for the lenses to be precisely a red-headed flea's > fine curly hair apart, and axially aligned within a gnat's gn** and > precisely in plane (parallel to each other.) > If it tests okay on the optical bench, _both_ the optical and the > mechanical engineer have done their jobs correctly... <g>
And if a nasal hair finds its way into the camera and gets stuck in the lube between the lens and the rest then it's history, off for service because the images aren't sharp. This is the problem with design engineers, they can't see past the lab. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html
