Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/28

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Subject: [Leica] Doomed: Leica MP 0.58x
From: mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura)
Date: Fri Jan 28 04:15:34 2005
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>              This "planned obsolescence" was introduced by the Japanese
>after WW II and in

I don't think you can blame the Japanese for planned obsolescence. 
Just take a look at anything made by Kodak (except the Kodak Retina 
series). And Japanese cars do tend to last much much longer than 
American cars.  Most Asahi Pentax Spotmatic cameras  and Nikon Fs are 
ticking along just as well as their Leicaflex brethren.

Not to get off track, but just defending my fellow country men and women.


Karen Nakamura
http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/
http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/

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