Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ruben, I agree it would be healthy to have a number of pro-level cameras to choose from. But alas.... I used Minolta and Nikon cameras at different times in my life, and loved them both. Sam S Ruben wrote: >Sam/Henning >Would it have been possible to have 4 brands, canon, nikon, minolta and >pentax + leica and contax compeeting for the professional market? If there >is only sold one hundred 1200 mm.* tele optics a year and the same one >hundred should be devided among 6 camera makers delivering goods for the pro >market that would make sixteen pieces a year eacg and that would not give >much back to the research/developement departments of these companys?! >(*and likewise with T&SH lenses and other special lenses) >Its happening with mediumformat to - Bronica, Yasica and Mamiya is out >leaving the market to Rollie and Hasselblad and perhaps Fuji. There will be >feinscmecher brands like Silvestri, Alpo and Lindhoff but they do not depend >on their own lenses, so perhaps Minolta and Pentax did the right thing when >then pulled out of the pro-market and instead was content with providing the >amateurm arket with som really competent equipment? >Anyway even Nikon is loosing terrain to Canon, so the future pro 35mm/11-14 >Mpix market might just have one player left in a couple of years? - sad >though > > > > > -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html