Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 21:54 Subject: Re: [Leica] maintain quality > Let's keep in mind here that we are talking here now about > a very unusual company: Leica. Not a company that has sold > out cheap and quick but having a long history of holding > on to quality despite the whims of the market and the > needs of economy. As long as they hold on to quality, no problem. It's really hard to move production overseas while maintaining quality, though. > Not like the Nikon line which now looks like it should be > sold in Toys R' Us. Nikon's high-end equipment (cameras and lenses, for example) is still of superb quality. Even its consumer gear is ahead of the competition from a quality standpoint. It has yielded more than I think it should have, under pressure from companies like Canon that are more concerned with appearances alone, but it has held better than most others, just the same. -- Anthony