{"id":582,"date":"2007-12-16T09:05:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T17:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2007\/12\/16\/canons-big-guns\/"},"modified":"2009-11-21T07:42:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T15:42:32","slug":"canons-big-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2007\/12\/16\/canons-big-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Canon&#8217;s big guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Watch how they are made<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>A reader posted an interesting <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2007\/12\/03\/canon-400mm-f56-l-lens\/ target=blank>comment<\/a> (scroll down) with a link to Canon&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/www.canon.com\/camera-museum\/tech\/l_plant\/index.html target=_blank>videos<\/a> showing how lenses are made.  (That same reader was very helpful in resolving a problem that prevented Internet Explorer users from commenting &#8211; thank you, Ben!).<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/CanonLensAssembly.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Click on <a href=http:\/\/www.canon.com\/camera-museum\/tech\/l_plant\/index.html target=_blank>Lens Assembly Process<\/a> (click through to get there &#8211; I cannot find a specific URL) and you will see how the monster 500mm f\/4L IS lens is assembled &#8211; I still don&#8217;t feel good about the price tag, but this helps.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots of great historical information regarding Canon&#8217;s products &#8211; click <a href=http:\/\/www.canon.com\/camera-museum\/camera\/index.html target=_blank>Camera Hall<\/a> for a history of cameras or <a href=http:\/\/www.canon.com\/camera-museum\/history\/index.html target=_blank>here<\/a> for great historical details on Canon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch how they are made. A reader posted an interesting comment (scroll down) with a link to Canon&#8217;s videos showing how lenses are made. (That same reader was very helpful in resolving a problem that prevented Internet Explorer users from commenting &#8211; thank you, Ben!). Click on Lens Assembly Process (click through to get there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2007\/12\/16\/canons-big-guns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canon&#8217;s big guns<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4307,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/4307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}