[rollei_list] Re: new Zeiss Ikon- a hollow construct?

Hi Carlos,

> Austin, It depends about the way you understand the term craftmanship,

What do you understand it to be?

> and you are assuming that I don't know the work behind a digital
> camera and that is a very erronous concept, a wrong idea from your
> side.

What are the "works" behind a digital camera?  Can you explain the process
of designing a printed circuit board, as well as an ASIC?  Without having to
look it up on the internet?

> BTW a digital camera is a human product and  is a product of the
> human culture and human intelligence, there is no digital camera
> without human being, but the difference is that the work behind the
> mechanical cameras has a high human component that you can find and
> trace up to the artisans from the Ancient times, even if the way to
> manufacture a piece changed along the centuries.

What does that have to do with the conversation, except to now make
qualifications that the concepts must be "old" to somehow be craftsmanship,
which is simply not true.

> A gear for a
> Rolleiflex made using a CNC machine is a similar gear regarding that
> one made using lathes or using the blacksmith hammer, but the
> electronic industry is something new that you couldn't trace up to the
> balcksmith hammer, if you prefer, the mechanical camera has a human
> heart that you can trace up to the prehistoric man, the electronic
> industry is new too much to say the same.

But, what does this have to do with craftsmanship and having "human heart"?
So, if a blacksmith never made it, it doesn't count?

> I'm afraid I was thinking deeper than you thought Austin.

How so?

Regards,

Austin
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