Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]DonjR43198@aol.com wrote: ><snip> > Therefore, we must be in agreement that Solms is an assembler rather than a > manufacturer like E. Leitz Wetzlar. As assembler, we must hope Solms will > set up quality control stations to check the camera parts it buys on the > market that go into the cameras so the customer can be assured the cameras > will work right out of the box. > > Thanks again, Mr. Puts, for further clarifying the "assembler" nature of the > company. Why would you grab on to this term "assembler" and turn it into a defining pejorative? You've won that battle of the pressure plates months ago. Yes it is Leica's responsibility to make sure any part that is put into its camera's are up to spec or that someone's got a hammer nice enough to slam it in. :) The fact that every part is not made by them from scratch is far from a defining issue. They designed these parts and the systems they go together to create. Erwin wrote yesterday: "An industrial product cannot be isolated from its design and production technology, it does embody in its character its creation." Leica is a preeminent Manufacture. In the history of manufacturers they remain at the top. The recent changing of the name from Leitz to Leica; The owners from the Leitz family to Wild-Heerbrugg did not break the company it made it. The M6 camera is the proof. "As I have explained quite often: the Solms way of doing things is better than the Wetzlar way.," Mark Rabiner