Friday, July 18, 2008

Price and reliability

It used to be that if you bought a premium brand, you also bought reliability. This seems to be less true in the digital age. Probably because unlike an analogue product, a digital one can't be built by a mere dozen highly trained people, but depends upon several very big companies to be built at all.
Examples of high-end products with problems are Hasselblad and Leica, both of which used to be the best of the best, and are still amongst the most expensive at least.

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