Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Dr. Joseph Yao" wrote: > > 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 I preface this by saying that I am doing what the folks who so tick me off do - in the sense of whining about Leica Corp and what they should or shouldn't do..:-)....BUT... What seems quite bizarre about this is that while there are certainly many pros out there who do not want to use Leica R bodies for various reasons - they don't like the shape, features, etc. etc. etc. I'll bad there are damn few who wouldn't like to have at least one Leica lens, be it the 100 2.8 macro, the 60 2.8, the 19 2.8, or one of the long lenses. My guess, and what do I know, is that Leica could easilly become the really high end pro Sigma/Tamaron if they had a mind to...which, God knows, would improve their cash flow... B. D.