Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:32 AM 5/6/96 -0400, you wrote: > It's not a question of "mass market". It's a question of > technical obsolescence. > > If a company doesn't pioneer the next generation of lenses > someone else will and no matter what their name, they will > become extinct (or be relegated to a museum)! Leica IS pioneering the next generation of lenses, withing the paramaters they've set for themselves. The 70-180 2.8 Apo Zoom, the 280 f/4 Apo Telyt, the 100 Apo Macro, all newer lenses in their line, along with others - a new Noctilux is coming, a 24mm M lens, an aspheric 21, and no doubt more coming for the M and R lines over the next several years boosted by the public offering of stock on Leica itself. If the 35 Aspheric and the others I mention that are already here are any indication of what Leica have up it's sleeve, all I can say to other camera manufacturers is, eat your heart out. Optically they have nothing to compete. They may focus faster, but that's a rather specialized need. ========================== Eric Welch Grants Pass Daily Courier