[Leica] In the hands of its engineers, not bean counters

[Grduprey at aol.com (Grduprey@aol.com)]

In a message dated 3/13/2005 9:07:27 PM Central Standard Time, 
vick.ko@sympatico.ca writes:
I wonder if
their percentage of "first-off defects" is any higher than other
companies.  


I don't think their defects on new items is any higher than others, just 
publicised and beat upon more when they occur, because of their historic 
quality 
reputation.  Remember the DMR is not out, not because of operational or 
reliability problems, but because the firmware is not quite perfect for 
their 
reputation.  Remember Canon's EOS digital line still has firmware problems 
as has 
been reported here, but no one bitches about it like they do when Leica has 
a 
hickup.  If Leica had put the DMR on the market back in December with the 
firmware not right, we would be hearing the complaints pouring out of the 
woodwork.  
Remember the Digilux 2 and all the complaints about it the first few months? 
 
And then when it was tried by some of us, they found it was a very good 
camera 
for most all conditions.

Gene