Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:11 AM 7/9/96 -0600, you wrote: >I just don't understand why Sigma and others don't make lenses in Leica R >mounts. May be they may much more money by selling them to Leica which >resells them at much..much..much higher prices. They did. Several Sigma zooms were marketed in Leica R mounts in the 80s. The must have been flops. I suspect also that in certain countries, Leica enforced their patents. They have always defended their mount where they could, to maintain certain standards of what can be connected to their bodies. I wonder what their arrangement with Tamron was? ========================= Eric Welch Grants Pass Daily Courier NPPA Region 11 JIB Chair yip yip yip yap yap yip *BANG* -- NO TERRIER