Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It means that it's less expensive for Olympus and other manufacturers to have some equipment manufactured in China, just as it was less expensive for Leica to manufacture some items in...gasp!...Portugal. :-) You haven't discovered some dark secret here, btw...Olympus announced this a year or two ago. ___ Sent with SnapperMail www.snappermail.com ...... Original Message ....... On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:17:03 +0800 "Joseph Low" <joelct@singnet.com.sg> wrote: "I was in Japan this week and took time off to recce local photo stores - this was a large one near to Osaka train station " "I was surprised to note that one popular Olympus DSLR model was labelled as Made In China " "I am aware of and know that a good range of Olympus P&S digital cameras are made by an OEM factory in Indonesia " "What does this mean for traditional and trusted Japanese "quality? " "Joseph Low " "_______________________________________________ "Leica Users Group. "See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information