[Leica] Olympus DSLR

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Jeffery,
Ah, but it is not just manufacturing.  We will all be the better off with
more smart people coming up with another way of looking at the world.  Mass
communication, mass manufacturing, world wide standards, much better
standard of living.  Of course, if you live in the western world and do not
have the capacity to become a creator, knowledge worker, and do not have
interpersonal skills to interact with your peers then your life will be
pretty miserable as the manufacturing jobs that require dedication, showing
up, and the ability to follow instructions have all migrated to someplace
else.

I can see large swaths of the western world working the tourism market just
as Bermuda does.  They need some productive jobs for people who can not
succeed in banking, communications, shipping, or insurance.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 3/18/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
>
> China is making electric guitars better than they were made 40 years ago
> and
> for about the same price as electric guitars 30 years ago. Computer
> automated machine tool technology is a great equalizer these days. For us,
> it means quality stuff at rock bottom prices. Unfortunately, it also means
> that products made in the USA are just too expensive to buy for their
> mediocre quality.
>
> You're right. The western world comes up with innovative products and
> ideas,
> and the eastern world makes them better for the price than we do.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Douglas
> Sharp
> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 5:56 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus DSLR
>
>
> 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-----
> >From: lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg@leica-users.org
> >[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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