Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When has a triviality such as 'illegal' ever stopped a corporation, if it went against their self-interest. While I don't have the info at my fingertips, didn't a number of German corp. giants buy industries in Eastern Europe just for such reasons. That is, to escape the homeland illegalities by going where it was 'legal'. At times just a few miles away. Ourselves, we have just such a fiasco here on the border with the Maquiladoras. S. Dimitrov > From: Adam Bridge <abridge@gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 23:21:17 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Fungus in camera > > I'm sorry but I literally don't understand what you're driving at here > and I'd like to at least have a clue. > > Could you expand or interpret? > > Adam > > On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:41:14 -0700, Slobodan Dimitrov > <s.dimitrov@charter.net> wrote: >> >> Those prissy Germans. >> So, what's the problem? Subcontract the work on the camera to a third >> world >> country, like Viet Nam, or Malaysia. They can be right next door to a chip >> or sneaker factory, and with an ISO9100 rating, and no one would be the >> wiser. >> Sounds to me like they just want to sell more cameras. Wait a minute, am I >> detecting a sea change at Solms? >> S. Dimitrov >> >>> From: Dan C <bladman99@yahoo.ca> >> >> >> >>> I finally received my 4/2004 issue of Leica Fotographie International >>> (LFI). Two interesting articles in it, the first dealing with repairing >>> Leica M cameras. Apparently the worst thing that can happen to a camera >>> or >>> lens is having it become infected with fungus. Leica Solms will not >>> repair >>> such a camera. The chemical required are "illegal" and, they state, the >>> fungus itself is hazardous to people's health. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information