Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All glass is cheap. Christ, its just melted sand! Optical glass has other ingredients, but it is still very cheap to manufacture. The cost in making lenses is in the cost of the precision machinery needed to grind the glass to precise curves and the labor needed to assemble them. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 3/28/12 11:51 PM, "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: >More than cheap glass, I thing it is volume that keep prices down. I doubt >whether Canon or Nikon use cheap glass in their top of the line offerings. >(-: >Cheers >Jayanand > >On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Kay Yang <liangjiyang at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Exactly. >> >> If you use cheaper glass like in the canon/nikon ones, you can >>manufacture >> them at reasonable costs, but that's not how Leica does things. >> >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at >> earthlink.net >> >wrote: >> >> > Frank Filippone wrote: >> > >> > >Nikon and Canon both sell them....at reasonable prices.... They >>must be >> > >retrofocus lenses to work on an SLR. >> > > >> > >Maybe the problem is ... reasonable prices.... >> > > >> > >> > Maybe the problem is not only making them sharp but also making them >> small >> > enough that they don't obstruct the RF. >> > >> > Doug Herr >> > Birdman of Sacramento >> > http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information