Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]People in Japan have a long life expectancy? As opposed to the people in other Western industrialized nations where people can afford to drop $2,000 on a camera without batting an eyelash? - ----------------- > Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:40:18 +0200 > From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> > Subject: Re: [Leica] The new Konica hexar RF; take a look > > The incidence of refractive vision errors in the Japanese is higher than in > many other ethnic groups. If I remember correctly, myopia is especially common. > Also, the Japanese have the longest life expectancies of anyone in the world, >so it is more likely that they will reach an age at which they will need >glasses, irrespective of any predisposition to refractive errors. >