Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information