"Jeff Marsh" wrote in message
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TEC is taking orders for a 160 mm APO. But TEC's price structure is
now a bit odd:

APO 140 = $4,600 (F/7)
APO 160 = $12,000 (F/8)
APO 200 = $15,999 (F/9)

It takes an extra $7400 to go from 140mm to 160mm? Wow, that's a big
step for 20mm. And it seems that if you would spend that much for a
160 then you would go ahead and spend another $3,999 to get a 200
instead. Is that the idea?


That's because the APO 160 will have a fluorite center element, not the
FPL-53 used in the APO 140 and most of the APO 200's. Originally, the APO
160 was to use FPL-53 and would have cost $8000.

Yuri announced this on the TEC Yahoo Group a few months ago.


John