Fake Lens ? ? ?
While looking for the items in the ebay, I found a small article “How to spot
the fake Nikon lens” by gmek111 in which, they says 7 points to check — but
in fact, it was try to sell their App. —– Think about the “Fake camera lens”
—– on the market, there are thousands of the cheap camera lens though,
I never heard of such as Fake Nikon or Canon lens kind.
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In the world, one particular county is notorious for their fake products —– in fact
80% of counterfeits in the world found to be coming from there. And in there,
such as cooking oil made out of fat from the sewage has been sold and so on, the list
of the scandals were endless. And their cheap products such as the netphone of
Shaomi sold very well and eating away Samsong’s share. —– Yet still, its screen
was made by Japan Display, camera sensor was made by Sony etc etc = more than
60% of the component inside were imported from Japan = they can copy the product
using the same components imported from Japan = but they don’t have the
technology to produce those components by themselves.
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You might have seen a cheaper Memory Card from that country —– half price for
128 GB kind = do you know, only 5 companies in the world having such nano
technology and non in china. —– So, where those cheap memory came from ?
When those electronic component were produced, there always defective reject
found on the test, which goes to the bin — somebody pick-up those from the dump
and sorting them for such as the one, 90% of memory is still usable —> make a package
and the label then export. The device jump the address of dead memory = still usable.
It may have only 127GB, and due to register dead address and jump = a bit slow for
industrial use though, the amateur on the street wouldn’t notice on their camera. 😀
—– the reason of defect might be caused by the mis-process and the memory would
deteriorate further by its heat, then the photo would be disappeared next by next !
= on the market, you will get what you paid. There is no such things of good bargain.
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When Contax camera was produced in Japan, their “Carl Zeiss Lens” was said to
be made by Tomioka-kogaku — though, after the production of Contax camera was
ended, the rumor said that the Zeiss lens for other DSLR were made by Samyan.
(under license of Zeiss, using their design and microchip — in fact I have one, but
that one says “Made in Japan” and the other rumor says, it was made by Cosina.)
(But I couldn’t find where “Zeiss lens” for Sony camera was produced now.
—- of course, optical part of Sony was former Minolta, they got own production line.
And Minolta was the inventor of the Auto-focus system, = they got top technology.)
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To make a fake Rolex watch is easy = it’s a matter of making a copy of its outer case and
put a cheap moving-unit inside. = it shows the time, therefore not much trouble to sell.
Similar situation was such as a fake computer HDD — inside may have just a SD card.
Though, to make “Convincing, working copy” of the Nikon, Canon lens is very difficult.
Those lenses are as sophisticated as the camera body itself. In fact, having a Zooming,
auto-focusing drive mechanism, let alone the tricky optical design =
It wouldn’t pay for making counterfeit. And to defraud the buyer, it doesn’t need to
make a counterfeit —– just show a real photo, then grab the money and disappear.
If the company has such technology and capable production line, the company would
do much more profitable business, instead of taking a risk to commit a police matter.
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So, the article in the ebay, “How to spot the fake” is just a scaremongering
only to sell their App. This article or advertisement itself is the fraud !
I buy small adapter, filter-ring kind, from ebay, but about £2~£7 of cheap products.
Because, I prepared to lose money = I never trust them. In fact, I never be successful
with the internet shopping when it was more than £50 price. — Ebay is having useless
“Claim system” — we need to report the transaction-code kind — Type-in — they says
“Code is wrong” — Type again “Code is wrong” repeating for ever. 😦 😀 😀
On the End, sake of security, pay a bit more in the shop would bring more peaceful life.
Ha ha ha.
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