[Leica] Olympus DSLR

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

If anyone is going to Photokina this year, take a look around the 
Chinese booths - at the last show they were VERY impressive - I get the 
impression that people are already starting to knock China just like 
they did with Japan so many years ago, and we all know what happened to 
the European camera industry..
The same will happen again - Western (and eastern) industry and 
technology beware!! China starts by copying or building to order - will 
improve quickly - put in their own(and "borrowed") ideas, then they'll 
suddenly be better than the rest. Things are happening very fast in 
China. What  India has become in the IT and services segment is where 
China is heading in electronics  and  manufacturing.
Douglas

Joseph Low wrote:

>             Hi BD
>
>             As I recall - Leica sent their crew to handle QC and the
>finished items were re qualified
>             by Wetzlar - I do not think this is the case with China made
>cameras for the masses
>
>             Further - the infrastructure support is also China based
>
>             Joseph
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of B. D.
>Colen
>Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 8:30 PM
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus DSLR
>
>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.
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>...... 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
>"
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