{"id":966,"date":"2009-06-03T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=966"},"modified":"2009-06-03T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T03:00:31","slug":"why-a-lens-costs-as-much-as-it-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/why-a-lens-costs-as-much-as-it-does\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a lens costs as much as it does."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the guys over at <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.overclockers.com.au\/showthread.php?t=785265\">OCAU<\/a> for the link below. I have seen videos like this before, but not all wrapped up together like on the Canon site. Grab a coffee, it goes for a while, but you might feel slightly better next time you have to mortgage the house to buy that exotic lens you have been lusting after.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/aux1.jp.canon.com\/com\/camera-museum\/tech\/l_plant\/index.html','reference','status=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=852,height=550')\" href=\"javascript:\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canon.com\/camera-museum\/tech\/l_plant\/img\/img_l_plant.jpg\" alt=\"Please visit the Virtual Lens Plant. (when you click here, a new window will open.)\" width=\"350\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the guys over at OCAU for the link below. I have seen videos like this before, but not all wrapped up together like on the Canon site. Grab a coffee, it goes for a while, but you might feel slightly better next time you have to mortgage the house to buy that exotic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[201,589,643,721],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-web-sites","tag-canon-lens","tag-lens-construction","tag-manufature","tag-new-lens"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqIRT-fA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}