Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 3/17/04 4:26 PM, Sam at sam@osheaven.net wrote: > I wonder if you can recall what was lacking in the XK system? It > certainly was not an array of finders, screens, diopters, bulk film > back, intravalometer, battery packs, motor drive, macro tubes, > bellows, copy stand, or lenses from fish-eye to 500mm. Here is an early > system map to help you remember: > > <http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/minoltaxk/htmls/xksys > tem.pdf> > Correction, Sam. Lenses to at least *800* mm. See the Leitz 800 f/6.3? ;-) One of the problems with the system might have been the separate motor drive/no motor drive models. Probably the biggest problem with the system, at least in the USA, was installed base of users. By the time the XK was introduced N and C already had a huge presence in the PJ market and renting lenses for either N or C was much easier than for Minolta. Minolta just didn't have enough of a foothold to grab much market sahre. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html