I thoroughly understand your point. But the latest Canon/Nikon/Olympus
or whatever is nowhere near as complicated as any of the pieces of
software that you've mentioned... yes, even Unix.
I haven't seen what I would consider signs of overcomplexity although
that might be the case for engineering teams used to the pace of
mechanical development and limited systems parts interactions. But I do
see signs of competitive time pressures and lax quality control. Those
are much different animals.
Chuck Norcutt
(in a previous life, OS/2 System Test Manager)
Leandro DUTRA wrote:
> 2008/3/2, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> I don't accept the premise that something has to be simplified.
>
> Sorry, that is how engineering — and indeed all science — works.
>
> This is what makes some of us prefer to use mechanical cameras
> sometimes; they just work. To talk about my specialisation, it is
> what makes Unix work so much better than MS Windows, or PostgreSQL
> than MySQL or Oracle; and what makes new designs be successful, when
> someone realises some entrenched design would actually work better if
> simplified.
>
> Granted one can deal with complexity by automating design and
> construction, by modularising, by having more stringent quality
> control. But then can we pay the price for German hand-made Leitz
> Cameras? I would love to have gotten a Leica R6.2 instead of the
> OM-1, but for one-fifth the price of one R6.2 body down here (R$4,2K)
> I have got a nice OM-1 set (R$770 for Olympus body, standard and macro
> lenses, leather case, rubber eyecup, and third-party tripod, filters,
> caps, macro lens case.) Hadn't my wife been around I could have
> gotten a wide angular with lens hood and a nice telephoto without
> arriving at one fourth the Leica body only.
>
> Japan is in a quality control crisis. This is a well-documented fact.
> Eventually they will have to do like the Swiss, Germans and Swedes
> and recede into specialty low-volume manufacturing and leave it up to
> China, but there will be quite a time until China can deliver the
> goods as Japan learned to do in the sixties.
>
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