Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Death Spiral
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 11:14:24 -0400

At 11:30 PM 8/21/1999 -0700, Ken Lisaka wrote:
>So, let's stop arguing that the Japanese manufacturers such as Nikon, Canon,
>Hoya etc are not capable of world-beating cost-no-object lenses.  They do,
>but not for the consumer photographic equipment market.

Thanks, Ken.  This is precisely the point I have been attempting to make on
this List, and several others, for many years.

And thanks for the update on Nikon's stepper interests.

Best,

Marc

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