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Re: Misnomer.
In reply to ulfie,
7 months ago
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ulfie wrote:
Polycarbonates actually. Boeing's 787 Dreamliner aircraft uses their cousin "composite materials." If you'd fly in that plane, you'd do well with buying and using "plastic" component lenses too.
Mmm, 'composite material' can mean anything. Plywood is a composite material and I certainly wouldn't want a lens made of that!
So a cheap Oly lens isn't, as it turns out, made of cheap plastic but is actually right up there with aircraft grade carbon fibre and polycarbonate? I don't think so.
It's made to be cheap and you know what? I can live live with that; good design can use low cost materials really effectively. I have a carbon bike but that cost more than a metal one, not less...
The 40-150mm actually feels lighter than the 45mm to me; maybe plastic is fantastic in this case
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