Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/16

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Subject: [Leica] Leica's manufacturing
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:56:16 +0100
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Quite so.
I completely agree with you.
Frank

On 16 Sep, 2009, at 12:49, Tina Manley wrote:

> At 07:35 AM 9/16/2009, you wrote:
>> I do believe Leicas are made sufficiently precisely to get the full
>> potential of the sensor. I hope they become sufficiently profitable  
>> to
>> continue to do this. It is impressive to me, as an engineer, that  
>> they
>> are selling the M9 at a lower list price than Canon's 1Ds mk3 and
>> Nikons D3x when one considers the relative production volumes.
>>
>> Frank
>
> And it's impressive to me as a photographer that Leica remains  
> committed to quality and that they are still very reluctant to do  
> anything that might compromise the integrity of their fantastic  
> lenses.  They could have cut corners in quite a few instances and  
> ended up with a cheaper camera, but it wouldn't have been a Leica.
>
> Tina
>
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com
>
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Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Leica's manufacturing)