This might well be the case, I have no engineering background. I'm curious, what do you see as the weak points, how would you improve?
Personally I'd love to have a plate that does exactly what this one does. (minimizes weight, iris rods mount, compatible with narrow Tiffen dovetail.) Quick release not relevant for my purposes. The company's problems are well-known, and I would be happy to consider an alternative. Baer-bel plate isn't compatible, Crosziel plate is as heavy as the Sony plate.
Notice he has no response to your question... just a bashing of Howard's work. From what I read on here he generally has nothing but condescending remarks for other's questions. Doesn't seem like it fits in a culture of people who I see as very willing to help each other out...
Lol. I help out quite a bit. And rather than bashing my post why don't you research Howard and his issues. You realize that several people have tried to get Howard to seek them items but Howard won't deal with them since they bought there rig second hand
I have read what others have to say about howard. I deal with howard often and he has always been a professional when taking care of products I have bought from him. I can only speak from my personal experience. My point was that Mark asked a specific question about why you thought that his product was designed poorly and you had no response. All you said was he won't get back to you and his product was poorly designed. Makes it sound like you were only posting to bash on him instead of explaining what you thought was wrong with the product. I agree that you help out as I have read posts from you that were very informational. Just too bad it comes across so condescending. I just don't see the reason for it.