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Subject: [OM] Re: Home Run
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:54:17 -0700
You can ask the same question about any Leica. It is essentially a  
small production, hand made camera that has established a reputation  
for consistent higher quality in their lenses and some of their  
cameras(Those darned German electronics in the reflexes).  Check the  
scores at photodo.com and they pretty consistently equal or better  
the so called legendary lenses from other makers with none of the  
duds. They just seem to go the extra mile to make a fine camera. It  
probably went through two dozen mockups just to make sure it felt  
right in the hands. Tighter tolerances such as the pressure plate  
being a magnitude tighter than those on the Japanese cameras. Milled  
top and bottom plates. Black chrome instead of black paint. No rubber  
grippy stuff that peels off like you see in the complaints in the  
Nikon and Canon forums all the time.

For that matter there really was nothing inherent in the OM3Ti that  
justified its final Leica like price.




Winsor
Long Beach, CA
USA


On Sep 15, 2006, at 11:38 AM, ScottGee1 wrote:

>
> $5600?
>
> A question for those of you familiar with manufacturing processes.
>
> Is there anything inherent to this new product that justifies the
> asking price of the M8?
>
> TIA!/ScottGee1


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