Arent all SLR lenses hand still hand assembled? They do not seem to be the type of thing where it would or could be cost effective to automate the entire lens assembly based on the low production numbers and incredible difficulty to entirely automate the assembly of the lenses. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Digital Image Studio Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 8:19 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: FA-SMCP 600/4 IF On 13/08/07, Thibouille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe, I seem to remember (may be wrong of course) that FA* where hand > assembled. If I'm right, it might explain why Pentax won't assemble > them all just for the fun of it. They must have one guy sitting in a back room waiting for individual long lens order to pop into his "build one now" pigeon-hole, but somehow I don't think so. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
