Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is not a German location problem..... Leica charges 10 times ( or close enough) because WE WILL PAY IT! It is not an issiue of labor rates or the amount of QA in the product. Heartily disagree... I feel that if Leica triues to initiate a new mount for the Digi-M, it bye-bye. There are thousands of lenses out there. They can all be used. Asking us to spend yet another 10 times the competitive cost for a lens is absurd. This is not Canon or Nikon in all their glory.. it is little old Leica. Agree 100% with the license the SLR ( or M!) digital body approach. Ahem.. Hasselblad is out of the film business... I think you had best revisit that thought...... You want NO Leica? ( they are doing that themselves...) Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net The other problem i see is that Leica gear is simply too expensive. I have friends who were interested in buying an M, but when they saw the price tag they dropped the idea. But I am not sure how to solve that. Move production out of Germany? I don't care of it doesn't use all, or none of the current lenses. Canon screwed everyone when they changed mounts and after the riots died down everything was ok. I also think they should team up with someone and license the guts of a good 8MP SLR and produce it with an R-mount. Make two models, one for $1500 and a sturdier one for more. I think Hasselblad is being a lot smarter about the future than Leica and if they don't do something soon they are going to be finished. But I would also bet that at that point ,they get bought by a big Japanese firm... feli On Jan 21, 2005, at 9:59 AM, B. D. Colen wrote: > 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... _______________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information