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<blockquote data-quote="Dawg Pics" data-source="post: 524163" data-attributes="member: 26505">Sorry, long post...yawn alert.There is a difference with swapping out the skin and reverse engineering a copy, or building a cheap camera and sticking a fake lable on it.I believe it can be done, but it isn't going to be exact. Usually, copies get something wrong because of cheap production and fake parts. You know, the D isn't the same font, or the buttons aren't quite in the right spot.How can you make this type of copy and create enough of them to make money, and I don't have any clue how one would fake lens optics. Certainly, there wouldn't be the precision required. I would like to know who the seller was, or if it was advertised as new or used, and if was sold out of Europe or China. I would love to see some images and data because there is no way they copied all of Nikon's technology. It would be too expensive.&nbsp; The idea is to fake it enough to get away with a sale.I want to know exactly what I should be aware of.&nbsp; A nebulous warning doesn't help me since I already know EBAY is flooded with fakes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dawg Pics, post: 524163, member: 26505"] Sorry, long post...yawn alert. There is a difference with swapping out the skin and reverse engineering a copy, or building a cheap camera and sticking a fake lable on it. I believe it can be done, but it isn't going to be exact. Usually, copies get something wrong because of cheap production and fake parts. You know, the D isn't the same font, or the buttons aren't quite in the right spot. How can you make this type of copy and create enough of them to make money, and I don't have any clue how one would fake lens optics. Certainly, there wouldn't be the precision required. I would like to know who the seller was, or if it was advertised as new or used, and if was sold out of Europe or China. I would love to see some images and data because there is no way they copied all of Nikon's technology. It would be too expensive. The idea is to fake it enough to get away with a sale. I want to know exactly what I should be aware of. A nebulous warning doesn't help me since I already know EBAY is flooded with fakes. [/QUOTE]

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