In a message dated 12/16/2001 Jim Couch writes:
<< The raw materials for carbon composite materials (and titanum for
that matter)
are not expensive, it is working with the materials and turning it into
something useful that is costly. >>
Yeah, like $400.00 for a Nik*n lens hood for a 300/2.8 (gasp!). My
friend Jim's looks really nice though...but $400.00 for a lens hood?! I
could get a carbon spinnaker pole for my boat for less than that. And
people think Olympus overcharges...
FWIW, a machinist friend of mine thinks that titainum as used in Apple
notebooks (and Olympus cameras) is a marketing scam... (But then, he
rides an Italian steel bicycle frame too...hasn't seen the light[speed]
yet).
Mike Veglia
Motor Sport Visions Photography
http://www.motorsportvisions.com
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