From: "P. J. Alling"
On 10/19/2010 9:05 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
> From: Jeffery Smith
>> Remember the little oval silver stickers? I bought a few Nikon lenses
>> from someone named Chen in Hong Kong that lacked those "passed"
>> stickers, and both lenses were disappointing. Don't know if that was
>> the reason, but I sure paid a lot less. The name "Nikon" was covered
>> with a black coating of something.
>>
>
> I think the silver stickers came from some Japanese quasi-governmental
> testing agency.
>
Are you sure they were silver, every one I've ever seen is gold. In
fact I still have a couple of lenses with those stickers attached.
Gold? Silver?
I remember the stickers, but don't remember if they were gold or silver
or either/both.
I do remember someone telling me some quasi-governmental agency
inspected every lens exported from Japan to insure it met quality standards.
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