Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/25

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica Newsletter and financial report.
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:12:10 -0500

$1. You're on.
(Oh, wait a minute - we may still see an ASPH 50 Summilux, chron or both,
and an ASPH 28. What I should have said is that the current lens development
cycle is the last. :-) ) B. D.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Douglas
Williams
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 1:50 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Newsletter and financial report.


B. D. Colen wrote:
>
> Prediction - If Leica is going to survive as a manufacturer of serious
photo
> gear - as opposed to just P&S - some time in the next 12 to 24 months they
> will abandon the R line. Additionally, I'd be willing to be that the
recent
> spate of M lens development we've seen is the end of M lens development.
>
I'll take that bet... ;)