Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you own one of the major ball-players in a market, then the addition of one of the others to your product stake can only give you a bigger market share. So why would you want to kill it? You'd keeping it going as competition ................. and reap the rewards from both parties! B. On 1-jan-2006, at 9:43, Frank Filippone wrote: > I am not sure what point you are making... Hasselblad's new owners > did kill > off the V line ( Classic 500 Series). The only thing still left is > the H > line, and that will go film only as an aside. Digital is where the > line is > going. > > Yes, you can buy whatever they have in stock. After that is gone, > there is > no more. > > If Canon buys Leica, and we do not know anything for sure as yet, > then the R > series is dead. Maybe the M series ( film) as well, but that > remains to be > seen. > > Doug Sharp's comments about the various patents is probably > correct..... The > patents are worth more than sales of a few measly tens of thousands of > cameras a year, at almost any price. IN fact, the purchase of the > company > is probably cheaper than the cost of licensing some specific patent > to use > on 30,000 cameras a month. > > Frank Filippone > red735i@earthlink.net > > > Last, Hasselblad is a decent example that new ownership will not > kill off > the film cameras. Film bodies were available until sales rates > were in the > low single digits. Heck, if you really wanted a film Hasselblad I > bet you > could get anything in the line. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information