Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/22

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Subject: [Leica] Doomed: Leica MP 0.58x
From: dorysrus at mindspring.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sat Jan 22 05:11:25 2005

Daniel,
It must have been an especially dark day in your part of the frozen
north.

Most products hit the same wall Hasselblad and Leica have hit.

Your product is just about perfect for its intended purpose, it has been
in production for a long time, you did a great job engineering the
product so most are still working, the market is somewhat small so
growth through natural increase is not enough to keep you going.

Most Leica users have more than one body but don't work professionally
where that is really necessary.  Most of us can get along quite nicely
without an exposure meter or flash.  Most of us have chosen Leica
precisely because it is an all manual device.

For a while, great new lenses kept the cash flowing, but now the end
users are not sure that they like the new product better than the old...

Last, new technology comes along that is completely outside your area of
expertise but occupies an overlapping market.  This is the same thing
that happened to fountain pen manufacturers; yes there are some
manufacturers out there, but it is much like jewelry or Hermes a la
carte.

The best thing that could happen to Leica would be Nikon coming out with
a digital rangefinder and Cosina buying Leica to profit on the
coattails.  Life would be really grand if Canon introduced their own to
take the profits out of Nikon.

As B.D. keeps telling us, it is just a machine that performs a function.
Enjoy the machine for what it does.

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of Daniel Ridings
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 12:05 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] Doomed: Leica MP 0.58x

Why bother with a Leica lens when you can take a fantastic lens and
tweak
the rest in Photoshop? The difference is so small you wouldn't even lose
any tonality.

Software is where it is at now, not glass. Everyone has good glass.

Daniel

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Frank Filippone wrote:

> The same that pay  to buy R lenses....but want a decent digital
> body.....NOW.
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
> Just how many Canon users will pay 2000 dollars for a 28/2.8 or
> 3000 for a 19/2.8?
>
> Ian Watts.
>
>
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