Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]He didn't keep buying Leicas. He just suggested that Leitz go out of the camera business. Bob never realized how popular the old-fashioned M6 would be. He also had terrible verbal fights with the Leica people because he was against them putting that big red circle on the cameras. It bothered him. He wasn't always rational about things, but he was right some times. Ed On Thu, 5 Aug 2021, A.H.SCHMIDT wrote: > > > Edward Meyers wrote: > Snip: > > > I don't believe Bob did one thing and told others he did something else. > > Somewhere around the early 1980s Bob got rid of all his Leicas and lenses. > > He had a going feud with E.Leitz (sort of). He was very upset that they > > did not follow his recommendation to GO OUT OF THE CAMERA BUSINESS. > > They didn't listen to him, so he gave up on Leicas. > > Edward, Enlighten me. If Leitz had given up camera manufacturing, he would have > kept buying more Leicas, but since they didn't stop making them, he stopped buying > them.Look, I don't really know this Bob gentlemen, but his ideas seem somewhat > strange to me. > > Regards, Horst Schmidt > > > >