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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alexis Powell" data-source="post: 1281128" data-attributes="member: 5327">From my read, the article says that they are planning to be able to build prototypes in the future.  I can't imagine how they'd pull that off to any great gain because they'd have to use off the shelf lenses, prisms etc in constructing a prototype.  Doing that would require quite a bit of communication/cooperation with the maker of those optical components, so it seems to me it would be easier to have the prospective manufacturer do that.  The idea of Vortex producing its own prototypes (at least those containing optics, rather than just mock-ups of the external appearence of the housings) seems like more of a dream or a ruse to me.--AP</blockquote>