[photo-3d] Re: product lifespans (was different realists)

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--- In photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx, Peter Davis <pd@xxxx> wrote:
> At 12:47 AM 10/13/2000, Mike Canter wrote:
> 
> >All hail the Realist, the VW Beetle of the camera world!
> 
> Perhaps, like the Beetle, the Realist will make a come-back in a 
new, 
> improved form.  I hope so!
> 
> -pd
> 

If the Realist were to make a come-back, what would you expect the 
cost to be? If it were made in the same manner by casting and 
machining the body from metal rather than injection molding a plastic 
body like everything else today? Of course it would be worth ever 
penny if it lasted 50+ years.

Buy the way, the most popular camera ever sold, the humble Argus C3 
went virtually unchanged from 1939-66. Why? Not because it was the 
greatest camera ever made, not because of it's styling (brick), but 
because it was a known performer and did what was expected of it. 

Rod S.