[Leica] Olympus DSLR

[jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)]

A sixteen-year-old can buy a fine guitar for $300 instead of $3,000. And
that makes a big difference to someone who cannot afford $3,000. And it
isn't WalMart junk. There is another level out there.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




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[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Scott
McLoughlin
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 8:44 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus DSLR


Jeffery Smith 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.

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I don't feel ripped off when I play my Tom Anderson Cobra, or Gibson L4 or
Hamer Archtop (not that pricey actually) or any of my other USA guitars.
Quality is top notch. Same goes for my Mesa Boogie Mark III, or Fender
Princeton (nicely rehabbed). Or how about some nice Joe Barden pickups in my
Strat? Love'em.

Look folks - cheaper is just that: cheaper.

I believe that nice things *can* be made all over the world, sure. I believe
that there are probably *some* nice things made today in most parts of the
world. Why not?

But in general, I don't think that lots of nice things are the generally the
byproduct of using whatever happens to be the world's low cost unskilled
labor pool at any given moment.  Nope, generally just cheaper and cheaper
junk for us, and the "Walmart set" consumers just seem to keep lapping it
all up.

Dismal.

Scott



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