Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Define "soon?" Soon enough to allow a company heading down the financial crapper to turn itself around? Soon enough to let Leica make up for all its lost time in digital? Would that it were so.... -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of bparsons@jhancock.com Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 1:29 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: RE: [Leica] Doomed: Leica MP 0.58x This is not the problem it appears to be. Leica is already working with the best sensor makers. Soon, sensors are going to be commodities. ?Then, the lens will be king. Leica looks like it can survive until then. Bill Parsons 601 Congress Street, Boston, MA 617-663-2592 (cell) 617-680-2779 |+------------------------------+--------------------------------------- --| || "B. D. Colen" | | || <bdcolen@earthlink.net> | ? ? ? ? To: ? ? ? ?"'Leica Users | || Sent by: | Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> | || lug-bounces+bparsons=jhanco| ? ? ? ? cc: | || ck.com@leica-users.org | ? ? ? ? Subject: ? ? ? ?RE: [Leica] | || | Doomed: ?Leica MP 0.58x | || 01/21/2005 12:59 PM | | || Please respond to "Leica | | || Users Group" | | |+------------------------------+--------------------------------------- --| Ah, but wouldn't Leica be ahead of the game working out a deal with Canon, where by Canon would get some sort of licensing fee for each lens sold in a working Canon mount? The point is that Leica needs to do SOMETHING if it's going to survive. Producing an extremely expensive digital backs for an R line that is already losing money - as wonderful as the cameras may be - isn't going to be the thing that saves Leica. And, as Frank pointed out, Leica's reputation lays with it's glass. There has to be a way for them to capitalize on that. Why don't they start advertising the glass for use with adapters on Canon EOS bodies? Use photos and endorsements from life-long Leica shooters... -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Herr Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:51 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Doomed: Leica MP 0.58x > Make the glass fit other cameras, Nikon or Canon, and watch the $$$ > flow in. This has been discussed many times before. ?I dunno about Nikon, but Canon doesn't want competition for their lens sales. ? A low-end lens maker can find a niche reverse-engineering the Canon mount and electronics. ?Sooner or later Canon will find a way to make the 3rd-party lenses incompatible with new bodies. ?People might be willing to spend a few bucks for a lens that will become a doorstop but I doubt many would be willing to fork out Leica-like cash for a potential doorstop. Leica's alternative is to make the lenses Canon-fit, manual only - which is exactly what an R lens plus adapter is. ?Why would Leica make manual lenses that would only fit Canon when an R-mount lens plus adapter would work just like a Canon-mount manual lens, and could be used on a Leica-R body as well? Nikon AIS-mount lenses make much more sense than EOS-mount lenses IMHO, especially if the lenses are chipped. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information