[AZ-Observing] Re: Meade
- From: Stan Gorodenski <stanlep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:17:01 -0700
Dick,
You stated exactly my concerns. You worded it a lot better than I did in
one of my previous messages.
Stan
rharshaw2@xxxxxxx wrote:
>Darrel, in a sense I agree with you, but in another I have to lay the blame
>for Meade's woes (and Celestron's, etc.) at the feet of the typical American
>consumer. We as a people more and more demand cheaper and cheaper products
>with higher and higher quality and that is possible up to an extent-- but we
>may have reached that limit with mass-produced telescopes. The bottom line
>becomes that a hobbyist whose first concern is the cost of the hobby may in
>fact be doing himself/herself more harm in the long haul (by driving out high
>quality companies that cannot compete on price alone) and leaving us with
>cheap mass sources of just mediocre quality. It may well be that ours will be
>the last generation to see textbook Airy discs in a telescope. Hoo boy, sigh!
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>Dick H
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