Rick, He was very well versed on the common law, as to which our law
came from.Penn is a common law state or should I say used to be..Joe
See this:
http://www.grg.org/OneHossShay.htm
Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob W <[email protected]>
To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' <[email protected]>
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Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 3:46 PM
Subject: RE: Pentaxes in the classroom, and reliability
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Larry Colen
[...]
I have no idea how other brands fare as student cameras, but
consistent multiple failures is a serious issue. Is there anyone at
Pentax I could point him to? At the very least, they might find his
class a good source of "torture testing", as the cameras probably get a
lot more usage than the vast majority of entry level cameras. His
problems are kind of a shame, because I think that a big part of the
reason that the K1000 was such an iconic student camera was its
robustness.
there's a story, probably apocryphal, about Henry Ford asking which part of
the Model Z, or whatever, lasted longest. On being told that it was the
widget flange he ordered the engineers to make it weaker, and therefore
cheaper, since it was a waste to have one part outlive the rest of the car.
Something similar likely applies to entry-level cameras. They are no doubt
designed to be exactly as robust as needed for the target market, who are
not likely to be using the camera much or subjecting it to rough treatment.
Making it robust enough to be a student camera would probably make it too
expensive to be a student camera.
I think the colleges should be buying used Olympus E-1s, which are as cheap
as chips these days, and built to survive everything except superglue on the
OK button, ahem.
B
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