Not according to fotoMagazin/Olympus. They hand polish the lenses for the E-1. I don't know if they are very expensive, but I guess the manual labour is a relatively small investment, compared to the otherwise presumeably mostly "robot-made" camera body, centre of a totally new camera system. I believe Olympus mad a clever choise in this respect. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt
-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 29. juni 2004 01:34 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Lens manufacturing if they have to do any hand work on the elements for even 1% of them, the price of the lens would skyrocket. Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Blakely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 4:28 PM Subject: Re: Lens manufacturing > It was a very long time ago, but I > am told that the process is very much the same today. Machines now hold the > "blank" and the "tool" for generating the initial figure, but for fine > glass, supposedly the final figure and polishing are achieved by hand.
