Quite the reverse I think. Highly integrated electronics in large volumes
are relatively cheap to manufacture. Take a look at digital watches, CD
players, .
Precision mechanical equipment has become more costly to manufacture and
assemble - Piaget, Omega, Rolex, leica, Rollieflex, Hasselblad...
Show me a small, complex, mostly metal, high precision mechanical
device that is cheap?
The OM4-Ti and 3-Ti are manufactued and assembled in Japan (or were -
stockpiles). Skilled labour is no longer cheap in Japan.
I wonder if John H could give us an estimate of how long it would take
him to assemble a 4Ti from scratch from just parts in bins? I seem to
recall something like 1/2 a day just to install a new circuit.
How much was a new Leica M6 again?
Giles
Tom Scales wrote:
> They're really trying harder and harder to kill it, aren't they. There
> is no way to justify the prices they want for equipment like this. These
> have to be incredibly cheap to manufacture, without any sophisticated
> electronics and with tooling that has long been paid for.
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