Yeah but the point of my reply was in response to someone's comment that the the all FA* lenses were hand assembled, not built one at a time to order. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Digital Image Studio Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 8:52 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: FA-SMCP 600/4 IF On 13/08/07, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. I'm sure most are hand assembled at some point even on the most up to date production lines but not likely one at a time to order. -- 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
