Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interesting article in the Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/business/worldbusiness/30exports.html? pagewanted=1&ref=economy http://tinyurl.com/8x9stm Not on-topic to Leica, specifically. Yet I couldn't help but notice the comment about skilled craftsmen performing at levels machines can't match. I think a lot of people believe the opposite is true. Perhaps Leica lenses are so good -- and expensive -- because they're out to be the very best, not just among the very good. I remember Arthur Kramer making the statement that "nobody regrets going First Class." That, to me, said all anyone ever needed to know about Leica glass. DaveR New York Times excerpt: "In fact, skilled Hawe employees are able to mill crucial parts of its hydraulic systems to tolerances of one micron. Hawe has not been able to find any machine - to say nothing of an ill-paid worker - that can manage the feat. It manufactures solely at sites in and around Munich, the capital of Bavaria."