Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 8:22 PM -0500 12/6/99, Thomas Kachadurian wrote: >I hate to be a doomsayer, but this is a sign of a company in trouble. >When a competitor is engineering a camera which will really undercut >their sales, they react to it by making the same camera they have >been making for years and putting a different finish on it. All of >you who talk about Leica as the pinnacle of picture making tools that >can't be improved with updating please explain how it's picture >making abilities are improved by a new paint job? You find this a radical departure for a company that has been doing this kind of thing since, oh, I don't know, maybe 1926 or so with the gold-plated Luxus? Shoot, I was shopping for an iron yesterday and found one with a Titanium bottom - the exact same color as the Titanium M6. Black and Decker going out of business too? Come to think of it, this was probably a performance addition. :-) - -- Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA