Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leica has responded in part by offering the a la carte Leica. But have you seen the prices? Do I really want to spend upwards of $4,000 USD for the privilege of picking the colour of my camera? Are there enough people out there willing to do so to keep Leica afloat? -dan c. At 04:26 PM 29-09-04 -0400, B. D. Colen wrote: >Emanuel says.. >"The old era of Zeiss - Leitz rivalry was a heady time >for 35mm design," and asks... > >"Now, in these days, how will Leica respond?" > >--- >As they, sadly, always have ... With too little, too late, and at too >high a price. > >These are not the heady days of the Zeiss/Leitz competition - which, if >we recall, were actually the days of the Zeiss/Leitz/Nikon competition. >;-) > >These are the days of the Zeiss/Kyocera/Cosina/Hassie consortium moving >in to clean up the remaining scraps from the rangefinder table - scraps >that could have been Leicas had Leica moved 18 months ago, or even >further back, when the Cosina handwriting was writ large upon the wall. >