Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Visoflex and R mount lenses
From: "Dr. Joseph Yao" <joseph@yao.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 02:18:44 +0800

on 6/3/01 1:56 AM, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote:

> And all of this raises once again the quite obvious question of why
> Leica doesn't put Leica glass in other mounts....and make the lenses
> available to folks using Canon and Nikon bodies...Now THERE's a ready
> market...

I guess it has something to do with their (lack of) production capacity.
They cannot even make enough lenses in their own M and R mounts.

Or as recent experience suggested, they don't like manufacturing at all.
They much prefer writing brochures detailing their glorious past. ;-)

Joseph

Replies: Reply from arbos@mac.com (Re: [Leica] Re: Visoflex and R mount lenses)
Reply from "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: Visoflex and R mount lenses)