Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On mercredi 5 mai 1999 16:09, Eric Welch [SMTP:ewelch@ponyexpress.net] wrote: > At 03:29 PM 5/5/99 +0200, you wrote: > ...snip.... (the Minolta R9 rumour seems to have been deflated ;-) ) > And don't criticize my communication skills. You're the one who acted like > Kansas is out in the middle of nowhere and couldn't possibly have any > factual information to share. I did not, my dear reader, I wrote : QUOTE "This R9 thing is just yet another rumour, up to now. Funny how these things build up from a casual, probably tongue in cheek, statement from an obscure Kansas dealer who, in no way, has access to such strategic items of information....snip...." UNQUOTE I wrote an 'obscure Kansas dealer', not a 'dealer from obscure Kansas'. And even if that dealer was the largest dealer of NYC or Frankfurt, it would still remain 'an obscure dealer', as opposed to 'an official Leica spokesperson'. Unless that dealer has himself very reliable personal direct contacts with informed Leica decision makers. In this latter case, that dealer would be crazy and suicidal if he made public statements as crucial as the one you relayed here. For the reasons I argued, such a statement translates into: "whatever you do, do not buy a R8 or R lenses, a Minolta 9 based AF Leica system is coming out soon". On a personal level, I'm poisoned by your rumours (the Minolta one and , more generally, the AF one) to the point of having decided not to spend 1 more franc on my R system till Leica officially states what its eventual AF strategy will be (what mount and what incompatibilities with current lines mainly), if ever there is one. Isn't that paradoxal, my dear R fan ? Get it ?