Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/13

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Subject: Consumerism [was RE: [Leica] Digital Leica M]
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Tue Jun 13 18:18:56 2006
References: <048401c68f05$f3099de0$6501a8c0@FrankDell2> <p06230941c0b49aa4bc04@10.0.1.3>

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
>
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Replies: Reply from r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor) (Consumerism [was RE: [Leica] Digital Leica M])
In reply to: Message from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Digital Leica M)