Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But how do you know Leica based theirs on his? You don't know that. Kit - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jim Hedger Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 6:17 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Leicavit, After Market Products, etc. I have been reading all the new Leicavit posts and can't keep quiet any more. I am pissed. Tom is such a heavy supporter of Leica and Leica products and seemed to have worked with them closer than you or I and here they go off and knock off his product which he is busting his ass to make at a realistic price. His rapidwinder is not a copy of their old discontinued product, it is an original design that fits on a publicly traded corporations' product, to help "left eyed" shooters and photographers that need a rapid shooting rate. They already had an electric drive unit why do they feel they need to jock his product. Oh sure they put a few extra gears inside and made it shorter, this is in my eyes this is the same as patent infringement would be if he had chosen to go down the never ending path of getting his product patented. I really think it is low to do this. CV made a copy but it is for a camera Tom does not make a product for. I am glad there are so many used Leica products out there in circulation because of this "copying" move I will never buy another new Leica Product. Tom and his wife have been through a lot of personal grief and he truly has put super human effort into producing his niche market product for us the photographers who use Leica cameras and he has done it for a fair price. I believe and hope Leica falls flat on their ass with this overpriced copy of his product and am sure they will never be clever enough to beat him at his game. Rant over, have a good evening or day. Jim Hedger - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html