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Thread: Deranged Aperture Blades

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    Re: Deranged Aperture Blades

    Aperture blades are really quite simple but for most of us rank amateurs it still takes a few hours to get it right. I heard the women working in the factory could assemble the blades in all of 5 seconds...

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    Re: Deranged Aperture Blades

    Quote Originally Posted by domaz View Post
    I heard the women working in the factory could assemble the blades in all of 5 seconds...
    I don't believe that. I've reassembled hundreds of apertures and it's never taken me less than 2 minutes. A ten blade aperture can take 5 minutes or more.

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