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Subject: [Leica] Leica Solms reports 50% loss what does this mean?
From: lew at speakeasy.net (Lew Schwartz)
Date: Thu Feb 17 09:39:32 2005

Asph summies 50/1.4 for sale? 

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From: lug-bounces+lew=speakeasy.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+lew=speakeasy.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank
Filippone
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 12:36 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica Solms reports 50% loss what does this mean?

Yes and no.  Deep doo-doo, yes; unhappy stockholders, yes; for sale, ? soon
to be no more, kinda, not in its present form.  Something must change.

Hermes must have lost patience, or is losing patience.

Thought... a LUG buyout of Leica.  If we were successful.....

Marketing would be listening to the various forums to supply it with and
respond to customer inputs, Worldwide Passport warranty service with
Passport warrantees avbailable WW and serviced WW, no exceptions, I could
have an MP with a rational rewind knob, at rational prices instead of gouged
prices, Ted could have a Leica digital R body yesterday, Seth could have
unlimited special editions in teeny tiny quantities, Doug could have the
Canon bodies that Ted no longer needs, We could all have a digital M by
contracting Cosina to do the deed.
Nikon and Canon mount R Leica lenses would be available tomorrow, AF to
follow, No more Null series bodies or other wacko ideas of past glory, that
lose money,

Others?


Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net



 He said that a salesman at Keeble-Shuchat told him Leica was on the "block"
soon to be no more...Does this financial announcement from Solms validate
that comment?


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