[Leica] Leica genetics...horse crap...

["Dan States" <dstate1@hotmail.com>]

The idea that genetics has a role in the manufacture of ANY object is easily 
disproven by the facts.

Fact:  Cameras, cars, airplanes or any other mechanical objects are just 
that, mechanical.  They do not rely on "heart", "love", "dedication" or any 
other feel good ideas.  They rely on SPECIFICATIONS OF MANUFACTURE.

These specifications are what determine the final output quality.  Indeed 
these specifications are ALL that Leica or any manufacturer can truly call 
unique.  Given the proper specification of materials, tolerances and  
continuous checks of those tolerances, hands from any nation can build the 
highest quality products.

Finally it should be noted that today it is the Japanese, not the Germans 
who enjoy the highest reputation for quality manufacture.  This from a 
nation that 100 years ago had no more "history" of technological innovation 
than any other feudalistic 19th century bastion of isolationism.  Surely 
those "high quality manufacturing genes" didn't mutate into the entire 
populace in just 2 generations!  Indeed considering the extremely low defect 
rate of most Japanese products compared to German we should be HAPPY to see 
Leica move it's manufacture to Japan. (that should get some blood pressures 
up!)

Best Wishes
Dan States
Madison WI


>
>  Erwin Puts wrote about Portuguese workers.
> > assume that these men mand women would be inferior to the mythical
>German quality workers. And if fact: IT IS NOT TRUE!!!!!!
> > Portuguese quality is as good, if not better than German quality.
>-------------------------
>Don't be ridiculous Erwin.  Mythical?  Is it mythical that the German
>army, using German built weapons and machinery, far superior to
>anything else in Europe, sliced through the Dutch, British, and French
>armies like a hot knife through butter not so long ago.  Is it mythical
>that Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, are among the most sought after autos in
>the world?  That the reputation of Linhof, Leica, Rollei, Contax, are a
>myth?  Then of course expanding the comparison we have Schiller and
>Goethe, Beethoven and Wagner, Von Bruan and Einstein.  The list is
>almost endless.  When I buy Leica I buy a piece of THAT action.  I am
>not interested in paying a premium price for a  precision tool made by
>a population who go to work on a donkey.  That sounds like an insult to
>the Portuguese but it is not meant to be.  They have fine qualities but
>being superior engineers to the Germans is very definitely not one of
>them.
>
>It has also been said that because the Portuguese workers are trained
>by Germans, the product they make is indistinguishable from the genuine
>article.  That is a piece of politically correct BS.  To illustrate the
>fallacy of this argument select eleven fit men at random.  Tell them
>that they are about to become the worlds best soccer team.  Send them
>away to Brazil for intensive training for many years.  Then play them
>against any professional soccer team.  They will lose because there is
>such a thing as natural born ability which no amount of training can
>surpass.  Natural ability works at all levels, interlectual as well as
>manual dexterity.  Its genetic.
>
>If a country wants to win a gold medal at the high jump it must enter
>one man who can jump ten feet.  To enter ten men who can jump one foot
>each doesn't work.
>
>BTW. I fully understand the argument that CoO does not affect the final
>photograph.  But my point is that I am not buying photographs when I
>buy a Leica.  I am buying a camera.
>
>With all respect.
>Alan

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