Btw, does anybody have both the DA* 55 1.4 SDM and Voigtlander 58mm 1.4?
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:59 AM, John Francis<jo...@panix.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:00:11AM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:31:47PM -0400, P. J. Alling wrote: >> > The end user is the final QC. That's true of every manufacture these >> > days. Read the Canon and Nikon Fora if you think their QC is any better. >> >> You can probably make the economic justification that most end users >> won't notice a lot of the problems with image quality, so it isn't >> worth spending the money to not sell an item that the purchaser may >> not find the problem with anyways. > > It's far simpler than that. People buy based almost entirely on price. > They won't pay an extra $50 to get a product that is tested before shipping, > because they don't expect that they will get the defective merchandise. > The same logic means people buy by mail order, not from a local store. > > For the manufacturer it's far cheaper to ship them all and deal with the > occasional return of an item that isn't working (or not working correctly). > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.