Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard, The waste is in the engineering. I have three cordless drills that all use different batteries not to mention battery design. We rush designs out without thinking through the process because it is too easy to set up another factory deeper in China/Indonesia/Mexico to build whatever was rushed out the door. I think that one of the things that most of us liked about Leica's is that not that much changed over the decades and that most of it still played nicely with the older pieces or younger pieces. There was some serious engineering going on behind the scenes. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 6/13/06, Richard S. Taylor <r.s.taylor@comcast.net> wrote: > > (snip) > >I had a friend who had a big screen TV.... it cost him $4K, he had > >it for a year, then threw it out when it went bad. His new > >replacement was less costly ($2700) and bigger. Made sense to him...... > > > >Obviously not me. I like mechanical cameras. > > > >Frank Filippone > >red735i@earthlink.net > > (snip) > > The consumer economy at it's worst - and an astonishing waste of > energy (think) oil) to boot. But that's what keeps the economy > humming. > > It makes my teeth grind to think of all the human and physical energy > wasted when gear like that screen (or a DSLR, to get back on topic) > is thrown out after so little use. > > End of rant. :-)) > > -- > Regards, > > Dick > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >