Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0065_01BEDD3C.35E92280 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I agree with Harold Gess. Especially in this new economy, I consider = the brand label (Leica, Dell or whatever) responsible for delivering a = quality product to me. I am not overly concerned whether German, = Japanese or any other parts are in it as long as they match up to the = specifications and the brander (it's awkward but I'm trying to avoid the = word manufacturer) stand behind them. And that's my experience; I've = never had a computer manufacturer tell me that unfortunately that piece = was outsourced and so they really don't want to troubleshoot it.=20 I use a lot of Hasselblad equipment but I don't everything to be = constructed using those talented Swedish fingers. stuart phillips - ------=_NextPart_000_0065_01BEDD3C.35E92280 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I agree with Harold Gess. = Especially in this=20 new economy, I consider the brand label (Leica, Dell or whatever) = responsible=20 for delivering a quality product to me. I am not overly concerned = whether=20 German, Japanese or any other parts are in it as long as they match up = to the=20 specifications and the brander (it's awkward but I'm trying to avoid the = word=20 manufacturer) stand behind them. And that's my experience; I've = never had=20 a computer manufacturer tell me that unfortunately that piece was = outsourced and=20 so they really don't want to troubleshoot it. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I use a lot of Hasselblad equipment but = I don't=20 everything to be constructed using those talented Swedish = fingers.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>stuart = phillips</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> - ------=_NextPart_000_0065_01BEDD3C.35E92280--