On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Joseph McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 20, 2008, at 06:13 , P. J. Alling exclaimed, Toralf Lund > replied, and Godfrey DiGiorgi chimed in: > >> There ya go again. Confusing them with the facts. ;-) >> >> Godfrey >> >> On Sep 20, 2008, at 4:27 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: >> >>> P. J. Alling wrote: >>>> Looks like no more "Made in Japan" lenses. The end of an era. >>>> >>> Actually, the article says no more "Made in Japan" *cameras*. It >>> doesn't >>> mention lenses at all. >>>> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aobIn0QQFaA4&refer=japan > > > > To which I might add my two cents... > > The baseplate of my K100, K10, and K20 all state that the camera was > "Assembled in the Philippines". Says nothing about Japan, anywhere. > > My 18-250 mm is labeled "Made in Japan". But the 12-24 mm, and the > 18-55 mm both read "Assembled in Vietnam". > > Joseph McAllister > Pentaxian >
The 18-250 is almost assuredly produced by Tamron, not Pentax. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
