Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I am not saying that because most of Leica products are expensive that the >new digital should also be as expensive, relatively speaking, as the models >made in the workbench manufactory. The fact that there are few models made >in the outsourcing process, relative to a mass-market production of other >products made in the same factory, will determine the cost, though. If the >putative manufacturer (whoever it is!) makes 100,000 of one kind of >product, and makes another kind of product that shares some of the same >features or perhaps even the chassis (compare the Volkswagen Touareg with >the Porsche Cayenne) or other "guts," even though they may be similar, in a >quantity of 10,000, it costs more to make the Porsch--the smaller run-->given the lower volume and higher quality materials, etc., Porsche engine, >etc. So the same with the new digital. It isn't just the "other" guy's >camera with a red dot on it! > >Kit Kit It may be absolutely true, unless both cameras were the same! Are they? I'd like to know how many differences are between them, excepting the "skin". Felix - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html