Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's my fear, that they will use the Leica name to charge more for what is basically Canon glass. Not that Canon glass is bad, but I would rather buy Canon glass at Canon prices. JLS At 09:04 PM 12/31/2005, you wrote: >Yes, and an eventual death for almost all M and R cameras and lenses. >If Canon wants Leica, it's either as a trophy or as a source for premium >glass to replace it's L line. Much as I have whined and bitched about >the need to see Leitz glass on AF and other mounts besides R, a Canon-Leica >lens available only on EOS mount with shabby EOS L construction is not what >I had in mind. I think we should think of this more as the rape of Leica! >If only I had the money, I'd buy up the entire lens design team, put them to >work in a new shop and let the whole world know! >Happy New Year >Javier > >>From: Douglas Herr <telyt@earthlink.net> >>Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>Subject: Re: [Leica] Japanese paper reports Canon to take over Leica >>Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:59:10 -0800 >>MIME-Version: 1.0 >>Received: from server1.waverley.reid.org ([192.147.236.5]) by >>bay0-mc8-f15.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); >>Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:02:51 -0800 >>Received: from server1.waverley.reid.org >>(localhost.waverley.reid.org [127.0.0.1])by >>server1.waverley.reid.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id >>k0122KhN048821for <summarex@hotmail.com>; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:02:49 >>-0800 (PST)(envelope-from lug-bounces+summarex=hotmail.com@leica-users.org) >>Received: from >>pop-altamira.atl.sa.earthlink.net(pop-altamira.atl.sa.earthlink.net >>[207.69.195.62])by server1.waverley.reid.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with >>ESMTP idk0122Ier048816for <lug@leica-users.org>; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 >>18:02:18 -0800 (PST)(envelope-from telyt@earthlink.net) >>Received: from 209-165-41-208.jps.net ([209.165.41.208])by >>pop-altamira.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #10)id >>1EssY5-00074e-00for lug@leica-users.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 21:02:18 -0500 >>X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jEjJh++5tuxg+PZkiK6ZKOlOv/fwQn9zlo= >>User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2022 >>X-BeenThere: lug@leica-users.org >>X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 >>Precedence: list >>List-Id: Leica Users Group <lug.leica-users.org> >>List-Unsubscribe: >><http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>,<mailto:lug-request@leica-users.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>List-Archive: <http://leica-users.org/pipermail/lug> >>List-Help: <mailto:lug-request@leica-users.org?subject=help> >>List-Subscribe: >><http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>,<mailto:lug-request@leica-users.org?subject=subscribe> >>Errors-To: lug-bounces+summarex=hotmail.com@leica-users.org >>Return-Path: lug-bounces+summarex=hotmail.com@leica-users.org >>X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Jan 2006 02:02:51.0415 (UTC) >>FILETIME=[789DEA70:01C60E77] >> >>on 12/31/05 4:26 PM, Frank F. Farmer at summicron@bellsouth.net wrote: >> >> > Seriously, if true, does this spell new life for Leica's solidly made >> > film products or a move to mass manufacturing of the same, or neither? >> >>If this report is accurate I predict a very hasty death of Leica's >>film-camera production :-( >> >>Doug Herr >>Birdman of Sacramento >>http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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