Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]HI, Mark. Agree that Leica should get BACK into darkroom...glad to see them at least make a loupe!! However, you'll notice as they changed their marketing from photographers to collectors/wearers of high dollar status symbols, they gradually dropped their line of enlargers and accessories....these people don't shoot much , and when they do, they take their film to the same "boutique" they bought the camera from and have their 3x5 prints made. They then use the 3x5 fuji prints to compare lenses with their friends' lesser cameras. Leica used to make tanks, exc. film cassettes (can't use 'em in a current Leica....), loading aids, fine easels, and of course the superb enlarger I have, plus the one I'd like (V-35). Not much use when your clientele can't afford to shoot their gear much for fear of lowering its resale value.... BTW, for the simpler folk, the above was MEANT to be offensive to specific individuals.......if the shoe fits, yadayadayada.... On a serious note, been using nikkor 50 2.8 at school (decent at f8 or smaller) Have a Rodenstock Rodagon-s (I believe) at home....for the "real" enlarger! (valoy) The rodenstock is NOT embarrased by Leica negs on Pan-f.....if there's a better 50 enlarging lens it'd be scary..... Cheers, Walt On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 12:33:45 -0800 Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> wrote: > > Why Leica Camera does not build a Focotar-3 "fine art" ? I enumerate the > > conditions : all metal building, 2.8/50mm apo, same ergonomy as a > > rodenstock or a schneider, price around 900 USD and a classy box with a red > > dot (Have you seen the boxes of the focotars ? A marketing disaster). > > > Dominique Pellissier >> > > Maybe as they've come out with finally a Loupe they will plunge deeper > into that post production area involving the darkroom where all my > negatives eventually end up. > If I was in charge of Leica marketing I'd have a full line of Leica > darkroom accessories. And the most important will always be glass/ the > lens. All those poor people shooting god knows what glass could at least > have the consolation that in the end it comes out of a Leica or > that it comes out in the end of a Leica. > The End > Mark :-) Rabiner