Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mikiro, I recall this part of the conversation too, and having written that report on the meeting, felt I should have been able to recall Leica's response. Alas, when I returned to that document last night I couldn't find the question or indeed Leica's reply. Jem - -----Original Message----- From: arbos@mac.com [SMTP:arbos@mac.com] Sent: 05 March 2001 20:21 To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Visoflex and R mount lenses Joseph- If I correctly understood what Leica people spoke in English at the Photokina meeting, "their" proposal of producing Leica glass in other mounts were rejected by those manufacturers. Any idea why......? Mikiro http://arbos.silva.net At 2:18 AM +0800 01.3.6, Dr. Joseph Yao wrote: >on 6/3/01 1:56 AM, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote: > >> And all of this raises once again the quite obvious question of why >> Leica doesn't put Leica glass in other mounts....and make the lenses >> available to folks using Canon and Nikon bodies...Now THERE's a ready >> market... > >I guess it has something to do with their (lack of) production capacity. >They cannot even make enough lenses in their own M and R mounts. > >Or as recent experience suggested, they don't like manufacturing at all. >They much prefer writing brochures detailing their glorious past. ;-) > >Joseph