Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:02 PM 2/16/98 -0800, you wrote: >Anyway, all the insignificant details aside, the gentleman being >interviewed related how "...Canon, the photocopier company, had a motto >that was 'kill Leica'" as a motivator in the upper echelons of the company. No surprise. I spent many hours talking with the head honchos of Canon in the USA at the University of Missouri (where they sponsor the Pictures of the Year contest, the largest photojournalism contest in the world). And I was no small bit of torment there to remind them they don't make the best stuff in the world. They still don't. But it's darn good stuff. I photographed talked with the niece of Aldos Huxley, who is a medical researcher at the University of Missouri. She told me, when she noticed my Leicas, that she prefers Leica microscopes to all other microscopes, even though they cost five times as much as the nearest competition. It must drive the competition crazy that people like us know there is a difference, as we are always putting their customers at risk of buying it. :-) ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now