[Leica] for those interested in future Leica developments

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

Nothing in that article! Photokina should be interesting. I would bet money
on some sort of commemorative products for 2014 though! If so that will
annoy the web Leica-istas who will be outraged at such frivolity instead of
(insert desired "serious" camera spec here).
Of course I've lost beer here before betting on some future Leica
development, what would I know?


Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 16 November 2013 17:07, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> 
wrote:

> 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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