Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frank Filippone wrote: > > Another example of cost over customer satisfaction. How much more could it > possibly cost to engrave vs silk screen? A few bucks on a $2500 camera? > Idiots. At least the Japanese understand their market and demand that Leica > service it. > > Frank Filippone > red735i@earthlink.net > The way things look verses the way they perform is an issue that has gone by me a few times this month. An example in mind is the lenses for the Contax RTS and the whole "Contax" SLR system's AF and otherwise. All painted numbers. Zeiss glass made in Japan. Bad combination. The lenses look like Vivitar's of decades gone by. They sure as hell don't look like Hasselblad or Rolleiflex 600 x glass. The glass are Zeiss designs which I'm sure are executed excellently. (An excellent execution!) Hence they don't get my money. I don't care how well they shoot I'm not going to spend thousands of dollars om something that looks like junk. I keep waiting for them to come out with a new group of lenses which look decent. They never do. I guess they'd make the other onces look bad. This didn't stop Nikon. Has the Leica MP been junked up by a silk-screened top? That I'll have to see. I know part of the point was to get it off the front. Less to lip read while beening photographed. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html