[Leica] for those interested in future Leica developments

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

M 241 :-)

BTW, any indication the future of the M system?


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Save some money for next year when Leica Camera celebrates their 100th, the
> 60th for the M system and the return to Wetzlar.... I'm just sayin' ;-)
>
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
>
> On 16 November 2013 13:03, Dante Stella <dstella1 at ameritech.net> wrote:
>
> > 600-700 film cameras a year has to make that one of the world's most
> > exclusive products!
> >
> > On Nov 14, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
> >
> > > CEO Alfred Schopf visited Australia recently and provided an interview
> to
> > > Paul Burrows, editor of 'Camera' magazine here. It's a very good local
> > > publication and I thoroughly recommend this article (and the magazine)
> in
> > > their Nov/Dec 2013 issue to anyone who can obtain it.
> > > You can get it as a digital edition apparently at
> > > www.zinio.com/camera
> > >
> > > I think that I can quote small portions of particular interest here
> > without
> > > transgression. Perhaps the complete interview will become available?
> > >
> > > All direct transcriptions from parts of answers by CEO:
> > >
> > > ..."to be honest, I'm not 100 percent sure where the D-SLR market is
> > going
> > > to be in the future. The mirrorless cameras are coming on and on and on
> > and
> > > I'm not entirely convinced that in ten years time we will have a D-SLR
> > > market"
> > >
> > > When asked will there ever be a Leica compact system camera:
> > >
> > > "We will have one, definitely. And it will, of course, be quite
> different
> > > to M system. We want to have autofocus with such a system and we may
> well
> > > have an APSC size sensor rather than a bigger one......."
> > >
> > > Getting back to Leica's plans for a CSC, Alfred states:
> > > "It will be a German built camera, however I'm not sure we can make all
> > of
> > > the lenses made in Germany because we are talking about a different
> price
> > > range to M system so I could imagine that we do some fixed focal length
> > > lenses in Germany and maybe with the zooms we will co-operate with a
> > > partner"
> > > He stresses that Leica won't be building on Panasonic's Micro Four
> Thirds
> > > format.
> > >
> > > On film cameras, Alfred Schopf  said:
> > > "We are now the world's biggest manufacturer of film cameras on the
> > > planet- because we are the only one, more or less. As long as we get
> > orders
> > > we will continue. At the moment we get between 600 and 700 orders per
> > > year............"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Geoff
> > > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> > >
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