Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wouldn't be surprised if it's Olympus doing the optics - given that this is an announcement of a deal between Olympus and Panasonic. Leica's doing the optics would require an entire new set of lenses from Leica, and there's about as much chance of that happening as there is of Leica's surviving independently long-term. ;-) -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jayanand Govindaraj Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 10:05 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Panasonic officially into the 4/3 system Well, according to Macworld, the Nikon D70, by itself, is 40% of the world Digital SLR market....the market shares in your blog are for Japan alone. http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/03/31/nikon/index.php Cheers Jayanand Govindaraj Chennai, India ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Nakamura" <mail@gpsy.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>; "CVUG" <cvug@cameraquest.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 7:01 PM Subject: [Leica] Panasonic officially into the 4/3 system > Panasonic has made it officially known that they're into the 4/3 > digital > SLR (interchangeable lens) market: > > http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/archives/2005/04/link_matsushita. > html > > No news on who is doing the optics, whether it's Leica or someone > else. > > Karen > > Karen Nakamura http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ > http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/ > > -- > _______________________________________________ > 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