Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/16

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Subject: RE: [Leica]The value of Popular Photography
From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:25:58 -0800

> If they can't keep up with the demand for Leica mount lenses (e.g. 90 APO,
> 35-70 2.8), how do you expect them to devote resources to manufacturing
> lenses in other mounts?
>
> Tom Schofield

I wouldn't be able to answer your question unless I knew what the problems
were....
In manufacturing environments, the problems must be defined.
In marketing, the problems are both created and destroyed....perfect
entropy.

But no cash flow means disaster, and selling lenses to Photojournalists
(real or imaginary) that want to or have to use Nikon or Canon makes sense
to me.......

If Sigma, Tamron, etc can make lenses  for multiple mounts, why not Leica?
It might be as sinple as Mark points out..... hire more people, get more
equipment, build a new building...The lensmaking is not exactly nuclear
science.

Frank Filippone