2008/3/2, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I don't accept the premise that something has to be simplified.
Sorry, that is how engineering — and indeed all science — works.
This is what makes some of us prefer to use mechanical cameras
sometimes; they just work. To talk about my specialisation, it is
what makes Unix work so much better than MS Windows, or PostgreSQL
than MySQL or Oracle; and what makes new designs be successful, when
someone realises some entrenched design would actually work better if
simplified.
Granted one can deal with complexity by automating design and
construction, by modularising, by having more stringent quality
control. But then can we pay the price for German hand-made Leitz
Cameras? I would love to have gotten a Leica R6.2 instead of the
OM-1, but for one-fifth the price of one R6.2 body down here (R$4,2K)
I have got a nice OM-1 set (R$770 for Olympus body, standard and macro
lenses, leather case, rubber eyecup, and third-party tripod, filters,
caps, macro lens case.) Hadn't my wife been around I could have
gotten a wide angular with lens hood and a nice telephoto without
arriving at one fourth the Leica body only.
Japan is in a quality control crisis. This is a well-documented fact.
Eventually they will have to do like the Swiss, Germans and Swedes
and recede into specialty low-volume manufacturing and leave it up to
China, but there will be quite a time until China can deliver the
goods as Japan learned to do in the sixties.
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