Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/21

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Where's Joe?
From: "Jeffery L.Smith" <jsmith45@bellsouth.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:16:47 -0600

So far, my 15mm Heliar does everything I could want from a lens at less
than 1/10 the cost of the Leica. If my boss ever wants me to use a 15mm
Leica lens, he/she can buy it for me.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Dr. Elliot
Puritz
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 4:50 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Where's Joe?


Hi Mark...Well, the 15mm lens is almost 5,000 bucks.  Must either be a
tremendously fabulous piece of glass, or Leica thinks they will sell
only a few of them, or both.  There really comes a time when the cost of
using Leica lenses is prohibitively expensive.  I know all about used
items, and many times such items are fine.  Nevertheless, hard to
justify sometimes.

Have you used the 12 or 15mm from Voightlander on your M Mark?  Wonder
how inferior the lens really is at hundreds/thousands less.

Elliot
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@markrabiner.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Where's Joe?


> thomas schofield wrote:
> >
> > Isn't Schneider's name also on Samsung and Rollei P&S cameras?  
> > Maybe
Leica
> > wants to avoid name association with them, or perhaps Samsung/Rollei
have
> > rights to the name and don't want to be associated with Leica!
> >
> > Tom Schofield
> >
>
> Well if the marketing research indicates that the Schneider name has 
> been sold to the highest bidder too many times my advice to them would

> be to hire a new  marketing research firm. The name "Zeiss" also 
> appears on a slew of plastic point and shoots and now so does Leica's 
> name appear now on a Panasonic plastic digital
grabber.
> In all cases no one thinks the names over been devaluated and they are

> glad these companies have been able to stay in business.
>
>
> Mark Rabiner
> Portland, Oregon USA
> http://www.markrabiner.com
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