Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 16/8/00 7:32 AM, Ken Iisaka at ken@iisaka.org wrote: >> Thirdly, 2000 sounds like a reasonable number of cameras to be > made from >> spare parts. I just don't see Nikon retooling for a rangefinder > camera. > > That's exactly what Nikon did. > As far as I know, S3 is now made by young technicians at Nikon Mito Factory. None of them knew how to make parts and assemble them. All what they had was old drafts. Retired technicians delightedly helped them "with their own lunch boxes" (a Japanese way of saying -without being paid-). Nikon refuses to repair original S3 with the new parts. Cheers, MIKIRO http://arbos.silva.net