Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pascal wrote: > > On 07-09-1999 12:02 David Morton wrote: > > >However the AX has been a commercial *disaster* for Contax. Some VERY > >large dealers have been selling only one or two per year. A Leica R with > >AX style AF (and with the consequent huge AX body size) would probably > >have sunk Leica Camera. > > yes, David, I take your point, but: > > what is the future of Leica R then? > > an AF body with new lenses (AF incorporated in the lenses unlike the AX) > > continuing with a manual R series (but then they should say ALOUD that > they are never venturing into AF) > > dropping the R line altogether? > > Pascal IMO it's not the lack of AF which is Leica R's problem. It's that the camera although it might feel fine in time in the hand looks too big in the hand for most people. A camera that size makes 35mm photography less casual than most people want it to be. They just have to scale down the camera with a little motor in the side hand grip like a million other cameras that sell like hotcakes. Mark Rabiner