At 12:34 28.1.2001 -0600, Mike wrote:
>I started researching an article about 50/1.4's a couple of years ago and it
>was estimated by a couple of my sources that if the Super-Multi-Coated
>Takumar 50mm f/1.4 M42 screwmount lens were manufactured and marketed today,
>it would have to be sold for between $800 and $1,600 (the variance depending
>mainly on how many could be sold).
>
>The point of the article was that for a time, manufacturers poured all their
>expertise and effort into making products _better_, and then, at a certain
>point, they started devoting more and more of their expertise and effort
>into making products _cheaper_. Both require smart engineering, but the
>results are not exactly equivalent.
>
>That premise was judged a bit too controversial for the advertisers, so the
>article idea was dropped.
^^^^
So, that's the famous "freedom of speech" ;-) Was it one British
journalist who said sometime about half last century (20th) that 'freedom
of speech [in Britain] is freedom to print anything the advertisers don't
object to'. Seriously, it's a major fault of all our photo magazines - they
just, put bluntly, print advertiser's crap instead of fine review articles ;(
Frantisek
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