Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:03 PM 12/4/02 -0500, Sal DiMarco,Jr. wrote: >Fellow Luggers, > In an earleir posting Martin Howard said, "Real men shoot with a >Visoflex." While, I think he was trying to be humorous, it was this type of >thinking at E. Leitz GMBH in the mid 1950's which prevented the development >of a Leica single lens reflex camera, until Nikon had control of the market. >Leica could have kept it's share of the market if they had an SLR ten years >earlier. Sal It is a LOT deeper than simply the choice of gear. Nikon supported their professional shooters utterly and completely for many years in a way that Leitz and Zeiss Ikon and Rolleiflex did not. If you busted a lens on a shoot in Lower Ventricle, North Dakota, the Germans would tell you, "ach! send it in, and we will fix it, for a fee!" while Nikon said, "pick up a replacement lens at so-and-so tomorrow". This won over the professional community REALLY fast, and the rest is history. Marc msmall@infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html