RE: [Leica] "B Grade"

[Austin Franklin <austin@darkroom.com>]

Cars are far easier to repair than cameras.  I take it you haven't done 
much car repair work...or camera repair.  The number of parts has nothing 
to do with difficulty of repair.

Also, cars are far more expensive than camera equipment.  They are also not 
required to be as 'perfect' as camera equipment (which is a precision 
instrument).  I would believe, proportionally, more cars go back in for 
repair than camera gear...but that's pure speculation.

In 30 years of buying photo gear, I have never had one problem at all, 
outside of normal maintenance.  With every new car I've ever had, it has 
had one or more problems that it had to go back, and back, and back...to 
repair.


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From: 	Raimo Korhonen
Sent: 	Friday, August 25, 2000 3:27 PM
To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: 	Vs: [Leica] "B Grade"

What do you think they do with the cars that do not pass inspection? Send 
to Timbuktu? No, they fix them - that?s what the factory here does at least 
(yes, they make Porsches, too) - and cars contain more parts than cameras 
so they are harder to fix.
All the best!
Raimo
photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen

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<leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>
>What do you think the camera manufacturers do, throw the ones out that
>don't pass, or have some human sit there and completely disassemble them,
>diagnose what the problem is, fix the problem, put them back together and
>toss them in the 'prime' bin?
>
>The question is, what happens to the ones that done "pass inspection"?
>