Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Something more from the site below.... http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/pc/docs/article/20010724/pana.htm The roles of Matsushita and Leica Matsushita - - digital circuit technology - - semiconductors, CCD - - secondary batteries - - strobe - - production technology Leica - - optics - - viewfinder - - handling - - Leica DNA (cultural and artistic aspects of photography) The products will range from >1 mp low-end models to those for "high-amateur" (if not professional). Matsushita Matsushita Senior Managing Director Kazuo Tada said the company aimed to use the tie-up to help it gain a 10 percent share of a forecast 29 million unit digital camera market in 2003, and hinted that it might play a part in a networked consumer electronics scheme. Leica Chief Executive Hanns-Peter Cohn said he hoped that the jointly manufactured digital cameras would account for 25 percent of his company's total turnover within three years. Mikiro