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Bad body in humans, boring in cars, functional in cameras?
"RichA" wrote in message ... I refer to this as the Japanese car design disease. Lack of any angularity. It plagues most middle-class cars on the road. http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=40899162 Most cars, cameras and other mass produced items are pressed or moulded. In order be able to get the pressing or moulding out of the machine it needs to taper and have smoothed corners. You can make shells by machining or folding, but the results are expensive or poor respectively. |
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Bad body in humans, boring in cars, functional in cameras?
"R. Mark Clayton" wrote in
: "RichA" wrote in message . .. I refer to this as the Japanese car design disease. Lack of any angularity. It plagues most middle-class cars on the road. http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=40899162 Most cars, cameras and other mass produced items are pressed or moulded. In order be able to get the pressing or moulding out of the machine it needs to taper and have smoothed corners. You can make shells by machining or folding, but the results are expensive or poor respectively. And they can do angles but they've devolved to the 1950's again. |
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Bad body in humans, boring in cars, functional in cameras?
"Rich" wrote in message ... "R. Mark Clayton" wrote in : "RichA" wrote in message . .. I refer to this as the Japanese car design disease. Lack of any angularity. It plagues most middle-class cars on the road. http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...ssage=40899162 Most cars, cameras and other mass produced items are pressed or moulded. In order be able to get the pressing or moulding out of the machine it needs to taper and have smoothed corners. You can make shells by machining or folding, but the results are expensive or poor respectively. And they can do angles but they've devolved to the 1950's again. Yes they CAN, but for lots of reasons it is better not to. |
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