Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]dear luggers, For the past two years, the Leica company bought about 10 factories dedicaced to scientific material, like tissue choppers, slicers and so on. They also have a huge microscopy division building confocal microscopes laser beams...They also bough "Baush and Lomb" ie, Ray-Ban, Bushnell.... Basically, the german photographic division, Leica Camera AG only represents less than 1.5% of the company. The trouble is that even they sell the best cameras in the world, they do not sell so many. They are expensive like hell, but I'm not sure they are making big money with these. Their market is about 1/1000000 of Canon for instense...If you want the Leica Camera AG to survive, they have to sell some shit around the cams otherwise, they should stop it immediatly. The M6 or R8 are great stuff but they are not leaders on the market anymore (like the M3 was). Sports photographers do not use a 400 mm with a viso anymore... Moreover, if you like sharp negatives, why don't you buy Hasselblad? Thib.