Re: Pancake lens disassembly

2012-03-26 Thread Charles Robinson
On Mar 22, 2012, at 12:47, P. J. Alling wrote: Is it just me or do some of the plastic parts inside the Sony lens look roughly finished as if carved out of sheet plastic with an X-acto(TM) knife? Well, the guy did say he spent a while trying to pop off the front cover before realizing he

Pancake lens disassembly

2012-03-22 Thread Larry Colen
A friend sent me this, thought some of you would like it too. http://www.petapixel.com/2012/03/21/what-pancake-lenses-look-like-on-the-inside/ -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: Pancake lens disassembly

2012-03-22 Thread Miserere
I'd seen the Oly disassembled before and was surprised at how little glass was in there. It almost seemed like the glass was an afterthought. I imagined this conversation taking place around the water cooler at Olympus Engineering HQ: Engineer #1: We've finished designing all the electronics for

Re: Pancake lens disassembly

2012-03-22 Thread P. J. Alling
Is it just me or do some of the plastic parts inside the Sony lens look roughly finished as if carved out of sheet plastic with an X-acto(TM) knife? On 3/22/2012 4:02 AM, Larry Colen wrote: A friend sent me this, thought some of you would like it too.