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Subject: [Leica] In depth article on Leica - Slow to Refocus
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue Sep 16 19:57:04 2008

He was the General of the South during the civil war.
>From the great State of Virginia.



mark@rabinergroup.com
Mark William Rabiner



> From: Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:16:12 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] In depth article on Leica - Slow to Refocus
> 
> Lee is Asian American.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Nathan Wajsman 
> <photo@frozenlight.eu>wrote:
> 
>> Well, it sounds like a fair assessment. Stephen Lee is by no means the
>> first Anglo-Saxon manager to learn that it is not so easy to go and 
>> manage a
>> company in another country.
>> 
>> As for the financials quoted, they are really disastrous. Basically, the
>> new products to be released at Photokina need to increase sales by 2/3 for
>> Leica to break even. So you all better place your orders for the M8.2 and
>> the new lenses ;-)
>> 
>> Nathan
>> 
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> http://www.nathanfoto.com
>> 
>> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 16, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> 
>>  Written by Mike Ester of the Wall Street Journal Its about the most in
>>> depth
>>> article on Leica I've ever read.
>>> Will have news for a lot of people. We hope most of it is true.
>>> But would have to represent opinions.
>>> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122152103387739231.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
>>> Or
>>> http://tinyurl.com/6fzv83
>>> 
>>> 
>>> mark@rabinergroup.com
>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Sonny
> http://www.sonc.com
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> USA
> 
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