Don Haines said:Sometimes it is hard to tell innovation from incremental increases....
For example, BR and other nano coatings could be described as innovative, yet could also be described as an incremental improvement.....
The lens design software (to those not using it) would be seen as an incremental improvement, yet aspects of the software such as new algorithms and GPU programming would be seen as innovation....
The preparation and machining of materials is yet another case where it can be seen as both.
The point being, that we users of the lenses do not have a detailed view of what goes into creating a new lens and that there is a lot of innovation that is invisible to us. All we see is the end product which is (hopefully) a bit better than the preceding version, so we think that it has been incrementally improved. The reality is that the incremental improvements are the result of innovation.
THIS, people.
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