Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Over here in the Netherlands many if not all photographers i have spoken too can hardly wait to get the digital back for the R. So the 100 users statement cannot be accurate. .best,simon jessurun amsterdam > On 10/16/04 6:52 PM, "Stephen Gandy" <leicanikon@earthlink.net> typed: > >> a lot of Nikon shooters use M too. it's not an either or world. >> >> if Leica can't justify keeping trained staff and has to lay them off in >> these slack times, I have a difficult time believing Leica can find the >> funds to develop a new modern AF SLR. even if they did, every new Leica >> SLR design since day one in 1964 has only been 10 to 20 years behind the >> best current designs from Nikon or Canon. Leica needs to admit its own >> failures and move on to survive. >> >> I believe from a profit standpoint, it is smarter and far more cost >> effective for Leica to just license the R mount for already in production >> digital cameras, and possibly a new generation of AF Leica glass in a new >> mount with those partners. So a Sigma or Fujica or Kodak does not have >> the build quality of a R9. so what? in three years a digital SLR is a >> doorstop anyway. >> >> Leica has to keep making cameras and lenses at a profit, not investing >> precious capital into dead ends which won't generate a profitable return. >> So 100 shooters pop for the $6,000 digital R9 back. big deal. with the >> ever changing world of digital imaging, just by the time it catches on, >> it >> will be outdated, and a lost investment. >> >> granted, these are all guesses. but the fact is, that what Leica has >> been >> doing with its SLR lineup and precious investment capital just has not >> worked out financially over its entire 40 year R history. it's time to >> wake up and think differently, or there will not be a Leica as we know >> it. >> >> Stephen Gandy >> > > > Not everyone is as convinced of the non viability of Leica R bodies as the > guy who is doing a booming business pushing Leica R to Canon adaptors. > NOT selling Leica bodies. > NOT selling Leica glass either. > > NON Leica bodies for Leica glass. > NON Leica glass for Leica bodies. > > It's the beast 666 antiLeica! > > I believe such commercial stance should be at least alluded to in a post > like this. > > > Mark Rabiner > Photography > Portland Oregon > http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information