[Leica] See the video about the M9 at Solms?

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 10:56 PM -0400 9/13/09, Vick Ko wrote:
>See the video about the M9 at Solms?
>
>http://www.luminous-landscape.com/videos/m9-video.shtml
>
>On the positive side, I now know how to take one apart and what to expect.
>
>On the negative (disappointing) side, is the most skilled task that 
>they do to manually shim the sensor and to clean the sensor? You 
>don't need three years of fine-mechanic apprenticeship for that.
>
>And why so much manual recording of data? Any modern plant would 
>simply scan the information and enter any other additional data by 
>keyboard.
>
>Don't get me wrong, I hope Leica sells truckloads of the M9 and gets 
>back into the black.
>
>....Vick

Hi Vick,

This is only a small portion of what goes into assembling the M9, let 
along producing it. There's more to it, and almost certainly a lot of 
digital testing and recording as well.

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