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mowog
Posted 30/05/2010 - 18:06 Link
The Prime Minister has said that our economy is too dependant on City of London. We must have less reliance on the financial sector and build up our manufacturing industries. He said all this without a hint of irony, by the way.
He seems to have conveniently forgotten that his party have been telling us for years that manufacturing doesn't matter anymore. We can let the emerging economies do that, and we do finance now. Making things belongs to the past.
Britain's economy has been based on encouraging us to borrow money and spend it on imported tat, together with flogging overpriced houses to each other. It's been this way for the last 25 years, or so.

But... Now things are different!. The country is screwed. There will be an age of austerity and we must go back to actually making things, again.
All well and good. Tomorrow morning, I will go down to my local branch of RBS, and ask for a loan of some of the zillions of pounds that the government so kindly printed and gave to the banks. Then I will start making cameras.

Yes! - Britain is to be the workshop of the world again. And The Mowog Optical Co Ltd, will play It's part in restoring our fortunes.
I'm sure the local council will fast track my planning application to turn all the empty shops in the High street into a factory. Then production can begin.
We will start with a couple of digital SLRs. Full frame, of course, and then maybe a digital rangefinder model. As for lenses, well...Our 600mm f2 is bound to prove popular with the punters, especially being priced at onlt £299.99. I won't make any zooms though. I might let Sigma and Tamron make them in the patented Mowog triple bayonet mount, tho'.

Yep, it's going to be great! You'll all but one won't you? - I might even let some of you invest in the company. After all, your buy to let property and your pension plan will be worthless soon, anyway, so you might as well get in on this good thing. Not only will we all become rich, but we will sleep sounder at night knowing that our cameras are made in dear old Blighty, by well paid, unionised and happy employees, instead of being hammered together in a south east asian sweatshop by 15 year old girls, working 18 hour shifts for 3 dollars a day.

Oh, yes! It's gonna be great!... Mr Cameron said so.
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Mowog.
George Lazarette
Posted 30/05/2010 - 19:24 Link
Seems like a very sound and carefully thought-out proposal, Mowog.

You'll forgive me if I don't join the rush to invest, but my little stash is committed to a project to extract gold from landfill. It's a sure thing, too. I'm being advised by some ex-BP chaps, who know all about drilling. Particularly impressive is their concern for environmental issues.

Best of British!

G
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Mannesty
Posted 30/05/2010 - 19:47 Link
Well as long as its got cyclone technology, I'd buy one. Where do I send my blank signed cheque. You fill in the amount, I'm confident of getting my money back.
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mowog
Posted 30/05/2010 - 19:58 Link
That's the spirit, chaps!. You know, It's people like us that are going to pull the country out of the mire.
No more Hedge funds, Junk bonds and Ponzi schemes for us, eh!. Proper manufacturing industry from now on.
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Mowog.
cedricd
Posted 30/05/2010 - 20:16 Link
Ah, MOWOG, knew Ihave seen that name before. Especially cast into British Leyland manifolds. Are you a fan of the Great British car industry, the name belies it. How about reinventing the Morris 1000? British made of course.

Cedric
Enjoy life
johnriley
Posted 30/05/2010 - 20:19 Link
I have a very nice British camera in my collection - the MPP Microcord.

There still is a british photographic manufacturing industry, but these days it's more involved with process lenses and other highly specialised products.

We gave up trying to compete with the Germans and Japanese when import restrictions started being lifted in the late 1950s.
Best regards, John
mowog
Posted 30/05/2010 - 21:30 Link
Oh, yes, Cedric!. Once the camera company is up and running, I fully intend to resurrect the once glorious British motor industry. Including, I'm sure you'll be pleased to hear, Motorbikes!... Then maybe, ships.

As I'm sure you know, The Mini, VW Beetle and Fiat 500 have been succesfully relaunched, so the Moggie Minor is a sure thing.

My Russet brown BL Mini and I have been together for many years, now. I have to weld the bloody thing back together to get an MOT every year, but I will not part with it.
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Mowog.
Mannesty
Posted 30/05/2010 - 21:45 Link
mowog wrote:
Oh, yes, Cedric!. Once the camera company is up and running, I fully intend to resurrect the once glorious British motor industry. Including, I'm sure you'll be pleased to hear, Motorbikes!... Then maybe, ships.

You'll need a lot of power to run all that. I'm sure there are a few coal mines around that could be reopened. Then you'd need an efficient rail network to deliver it.
Peter E Smith - flickr Photostream
George Lazarette
Posted 30/05/2010 - 21:52 Link
Rail? What about the canals? Now, it so happens that I have a barge...

G
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Oggy
Posted 30/05/2010 - 22:01 Link
The 600mm F2 at £300 (keep the change) does it for me - I'm in.

I assume there will be a bogey (never mind a tripod) thrown in at that price.
mowog
Posted 30/05/2010 - 22:16 Link
Blimey, Peter... I can't do it all myself, Mate! - Anyway, having a few socialist principles left, I think the railways and reopened coal mines should be re-nationalised.


Well, Oggy, Just wait until you see the 8-400 f2.8 Varifocal! (Not zoom).
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Oggy
Posted 30/05/2010 - 22:22 Link
400mm? A bit short. Get it over 427mm and I might be able to use it. Maybe even 423mm at a push.
i-Berg
Posted 31/05/2010 - 00:53 Link
Oggy wrote:
The 600mm F2 at £300 (keep the change) does it for me - I'm in.

I assume there will be a bogey (never mind a tripod) thrown in at that price.

Oggy - that's what the new rail system was for!
dougf8
Posted 31/05/2010 - 06:44 Link
I look forward to the Mowg-micro-portrait lens.
A M* zoom F1.25 53.6-60.5mm 17 elements in 13 groups front element 91mm. Sealed against water, dust, sick and also shark proof.

Also the M* tele/macro/normal turret adapter.
Three average lenses can be mounted on the turret which in turn is mounted on the camera. One mount converts your 18-55mm Pentax lens (other sub-adapters available) into a macro lens, another converts 18-55mm into a useful telephoto lens, and the final mount corrects the optics in the 18-55mm and makes it perform like a M* lens of 10 times the cost.

The turret can be rotated allowing the selection of the lens easily on the hoof. Projected weight turret alone 5.5Kg(without batteries). 5 lens turret (with 4 stroke engine) expected 2031.
Lurking is shirking.!
Edited by dougf8: 31/05/2010 - 06:45
flossie
Posted 31/05/2010 - 07:48 Link
I've spotted an early prototype dougf8...

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