Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John Hudson jotted down the following: > Would your opinion change if the sticker read "Made in China" ? Nope. I'm interested in them as functional cameras, capable of taking a beating, and still holding up. They are also sensuous objects, delightfully designed, beautiful to behold and use. And they take superb lenses. These are the qualities that I pay for. As long as those qualities remain, it couldn't care less where they'd been assembled. Besides, it's a wonderfully naive notion to assume that -- in today's manufacturing and global economic climate -- *anything* short of handcrafted tourist crap is the product of a single country. Especially complex machines such as cameras, cars, computers, or whatnot. When I buy a Leica, I'm more interested in the camera being designed, manufactured, and tested by *Leica* than I am in it being done in a particular country. Kinda makes sense, don't'ya think? M. - -- Martin Howard | I was going to get onto the Information Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | Superhighway, but got stuck in a email: howard.390@osu.edu | traffic jam on the on-ramp. www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +----------------------------------------