Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ah, but wouldn't Leica be ahead of the game working out a deal with Canon, where by Canon would get some sort of licensing fee for each lens sold in a working Canon mount? The point is that Leica needs to do SOMETHING if it's going to survive. Producing an extremely expensive digital backs for an R line that is already losing money - as wonderful as the cameras may be - isn't going to be the thing that saves Leica. And, as Frank pointed out, Leica's reputation lays with it's glass. There has to be a way for them to capitalize on that. Why don't they start advertising the glass for use with adapters on Canon EOS bodies? Use photos and endorsements from life-long Leica shooters... -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Herr Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:51 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Doomed: Leica MP 0.58x > Make the glass fit other cameras, Nikon or Canon, and watch the $$$ > flow in. This has been discussed many times before. I dunno about Nikon, but Canon doesn't want competition for their lens sales. A low-end lens maker can find a niche reverse-engineering the Canon mount and electronics. Sooner or later Canon will find a way to make the 3rd-party lenses incompatible with new bodies. People might be willing to spend a few bucks for a lens that will become a doorstop but I doubt many would be willing to fork out Leica-like cash for a potential doorstop. Leica's alternative is to make the lenses Canon-fit, manual only - which is exactly what an R lens plus adapter is. Why would Leica make manual lenses that would only fit Canon when an R-mount lens plus adapter would work just like a Canon-mount manual lens, and could be used on a Leica-R body as well? Nikon AIS-mount lenses make much more sense than EOS-mount lenses IMHO, especially if the lenses are chipped. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information