[Leica] Leica Solms LUG LHSA Buyout

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Excuse me, but may I ask? Why are people crying over the possible crash and 
burn of a company that failed to move with the times when most others did?

Not only that, but when they (the management)  "did wake up to join the 
digital world" they failed miserably! Hell they're still dragging their ass 
around with all kinds of excuses and it doesn't matter whom they wish to 
blame as it begins/began right at the top by people of little or no vision 
of the future as it was rushing at them!

Look, world economics, whatever economics, it's the mind set of those 
running the shop! And all the suggestions of "lets all run out and buy a 
couple of new bodies and lenses is absolute hogwash!" Everyone get their 
cash together and buy the shop? Crazy! The first thing? Get rid of the crew 
at the top!

Sell the thing to people who know how to promote products, then figure out 
how to " beat or join the onslaught of the digital world juggernaut or how 
to make it work for Leica!"  Figure that one out and the outfit might be 
saved. If not, it's destined to become... "Do you remember that wonderful 
35mm camera, the Leica?"

Look, back up the clock to the days of the first Japanese SLR's beginning to 
appear. When old man Leitz said the SLR was a fad and all those starting to 
use the SLR would return to Leica. So he forbade any SLR research nor anyone 
at Leitz even think about a Leica camera in the SLR format. Period!

No need to finish the tale as we all know where it went and why Leica is 
still dragging their ass in the mud figuring out how the world passed them 
by!

They might get though this present mess, but not in the hands of the crew 
running the ship at the moment. And certainly not by a bunch of us rushing 
out to buy ... "film cameras!" No matter how much we "love, cherish and all 
the other silly terms for some damn tool that holds film!"

Sorry folks, it's "LIFE IN THE REAL WORLD!"


ted