What heck is that?! 35mm F2 WR with dust inside

robert1955 wrote:

stevo23 wrote:

Sjak wrote:

stevo23 wrote:

And to be clear, This isn't about quality, it's about the inspection process and human error. Quality is how you design the lens, how well it's made, how durable it is and the image quality it produces. What we appear to be dealing with here is factory conditions and human error. (I know I know, it's all quality in a sense...)

Quality (in a business operation, such as Fuji corporation) specifically relates to meeting certain standarts, having documented internal processes for checks on the products and assembly process, how to try and decrease the chance of human error affecting the final product, root cause analysis upon reported deviations, scheduled and unscheduled audits / sampling, training of personnel, etc.

Yes, it is the whole thing. I'm specifically calling out the fact that it's a human issue that's causing this, not actually quality of the lens.

The design process

I would say quality is designed into a product prior to assembly.

Quality of the assembly process is also by design: you design the assembly process in a way that leads to desired results: correct placing of glass [process prevents decentering] and a clean workplace would be elements of that.

I think what I'm saying is that it's a quality lens by design, but the assembly process has some quality issues.

IE - we would say it's a "quality lens" but that it suffers from some issues that are human induced along the line. Bad filters? Room not clean? Who knows.

I do agree that the linked article is mostly a lot of noise and certainly does not deserve the label "report".

Agree.

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