Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]By all accounts, the replacement of Cohn by Coenen (despite their aggravatingly similar names -- don't they have any Schmidts left in Germany?) is all for the better. Coenen is ex-Zeiss. He is not a clever marketer of furniture. He is a person who knows optics and camera engineering from the inside. He has a business degree. Sounds good to me so far. He has worked himself up the Leica Solms ladder for the past few years. For my money, that kind of person is intrinsically superior to some smarty-pants who swoops in from the outside, with even the best of intentions and Hermes' backing. Meanwhile, some 25% of Leica's shares have been bought by a group of Austrian investors who previously picked up another piece of the Leica group of companies. These are people who want to own technology-minded companies, not a scarf and handbag manufacturer. It bugs me to read people ridiculing Leica for doing nothing. They recently released the M7 and MP and several new lenses. Just because Photokina and PMA occur with predictable regularity, does Leica always have to show up there with some totally new thing, as if on cue? Rest assured that the Leica M digital camera will closely resemble a film M, not some gussied up Cosina. It'll have significantly more megapixels than the Epson. But like the Epson, within a few short years it will be superseded by advancing technology and anyone who buys one will feel like dumping it for the new and improved. So how many here consider their 50-year-old design M cameras obsolete yet? Not me, no matter what the market keeps telling me to believe. Emanuel Lowi Montreal ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca