Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D. Colen wrote: >If there is one thing wrong with this list, it is the >not infrequen suggestion that things Japanese are not >top quality, while things made in or for Germany are. This is absolutely true. I'm not sure if anyone remembers, but there was a Mike Meyers skit on Saturday Night Live several years ago (the comedy show in the US) in which he was the proprietor of a store called "All Things Scottish". Whenever an unuspecting customer would ask for some non-Scottish product, Mike Meyers (in thick Scottish accent) would bellow "If it isn't Scottish, it's CRAP!" A similar logic occasionally applies in the Leica community, but it is more along the lines of "If it isn't German..." While automotive analogies often do not hold up with cameras, in terms of the potential of Japanese manufacturing techniques, it is interesting to look at JD Powers automotive quality results. Lexus (167 problems per 100 cars) beat the pants off the Germans (Benz's 278 and BMW's 319). There is more to a product than sheer quality, but this illustrates that it is unreasonable to descriminate against a product solely because of where it is manufactured. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com