Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica R death
From: "Giorgio Ferrari" <fergio@galactica.it>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 23:05:06 +0200
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Dear Raimo and dear Nathan,
I've had a bad, bad sensation about Leica future, during the Leica meeting
in Koln. Expecially about the R system. They have reported their pont of
view about the future of Leica products:
R system: maybe one new lens, maybe one new small body. No autofocus, no
accessories and, maybe, no digital cameras (in R system). No agreements with
other companies for electronical developement.
Can you see the light? Can you see a good future for the R system? The only
one R camera that I've seen at the meeting was the Nathan's son camera!!!!
And then: why another small body? The R6.2 is not a good small body?
They have no ideas, my friends. The M system manager said: "I don't know how
Cosina can produce good lenses with low prices"!!! Fantastic!!! Are you sure
about the Leica R future?

Giorgio Ferrari
"fergio@galactica.it"

P.S.: please friends, can you tell something about the names of the four
italian members of the meeting to Mr. Piccinelli?

> I'm sorry, but I'm a newby. I stayed some days lurking and I read some
> emails saying about the future of the R system and underlining that it was
> not going to death.
> Now I would like to know something about the beginning of this problem,
that
> is: who said that the R system was in death ?
> The real reason of my question is that in an italian newsgroup a man wrote
> that he went to Photokina, attended to a conference with Leica managers
and
> he understood that they were planning to stop production of R. I guess he
is
> not saying the truth, probably he never went to Colonia but I'd like to
have
> a confirmation from LUGgers who really went to Photokina.
>
>
> thank you
> Luca Piccinelli
>  Italy
>
>
>

In reply to: Message from "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi> (Vs: [Leica] Photokina products...)
Message from "Tom Schofield" <tdschofield@email.msn.com> (Re: [Leica] Photokina products...)
Message from "LuPi" <lucapiccinelli@libero.it> ([Leica] Leica R death)