Thanks for sharing. This is very cool stuff to look at.

Most excellent post---you made 'crave, the gadget blog' one of my favorite sites

http://news.cnet.com/8300-17938_105-1-2.html?tag=mncol

I also read about this on cnet. You're officially famous! Cool photos too.

http://gizmodo.com/5059313/canon-lens-completely-disassembled-result-a-lot-of-rings

Also here

deeprblue wrote:
Why don't you make one of these with it?






Now see? If Canon actually made these cups people would go crazy over them and buy them all up ... this would be a great gift for their CPS clients too

Same with the pen holder, I'm sure it wouldn't cost Canon much money for a static lens body with no electronics or glass in it, and not only would it generate profit, but it would be great advertising too

VERY cool post here, it was great to see the internals of a lens, I've stripped down a few lenses to the core before, so I was expecting there to be at least that many internal parts, but one thing I am always surprised by is the internal quality and attention to detail that they take with their EOS products

RobertLynn wrote:
Send it to Canon and see how much it costs

Now that would be funny I can see their faces when they opened that box

Sweet! Another resurrected thread! As the OP said, it's remarkable that all that fits in the lens!

Tell them it's in warranty.

Wow ! It looks like a jet turbine put apart .

Today, I noticed 2 rather large dust particles on the inside element of my 17-85mm lens. I wish I can remove it. Can you show us how you took apart your lens?

I saw a lot of those parts when my 17-85 hit the pavement after falling out of my backpack

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