Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's true. Even the vaunted "alliance" between Leica and Magnum didn't make many (any?) of them switch to M9 full time, or even majority of the time. On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Phil Forrest <photo.forrest at earthlink.net>wrote: > But most working top photogs don't use M9s or Leicas at all. they use > Canons, Nikons, Mamiyas and Hasselblads. Sure, a few folks do use > Leicas, but for the most part, the marque is one that is kept going by > affluent hobbyists. If Leica relied on professional photographers > alone, they would have been gone by the 1970s. > It's not pessimism, it's more realism. > > Phil Forrest > > > On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:51:05 -0500 > Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > > Except for the fact that the M system and Leica are both doing very > > well. And will probably as time goes by be doing even better. > > Digital did not kill Leica. The M8 kept it going and the M9 improved > > on it by quite a bit. The M9.5 or 10 will be I'm sure another giant > > step up and will sell like hotcakes including to top photogs. > > Such pessimism has no grounds in reality. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>