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Are de-kitted lenses more prone to sample variation?

Started Jul 12, 2016 | Discussions thread
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Re: Are de-kitted lenses more prone to sample variation?
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Wasabi Bob wrote:

I'm stating what has been published numerous times over the past 20 years. I'm referring to the number of lens produced, not only for digital still cameras, but also camcorders and cell phones. Panasonic's lens facility in Yamagata has produced more aspherical lens for just about every company than any other company. Most people are unaware of the OEM business that Panasonic has. Their expertise is what led to the business relation with Leica, where they had resident Leica engineers on site.

Well, considering Samsung does their own manufacturing, that would surprise me very much.  Samsung has sold ~50M phones on average each quarter, for a total of 300M phones per year, for the last four years.  (They are currently sitting at about 90M phones per quarter).  Each of these phones contains 5 aspheric lenses, and the yield for these lenses is about 15%.  Apple's OEM is not panasonic, and the rest of the smartphone market combined is only half of Apple and Samsung's share.  More smartphones are sold per quarter than cameras are sold per year, and smartphones are all ~5 element all-aspheric systems where most camera lenses may have one asphere, or even two in recent years.

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