Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/23

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Porsche and Leica
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Wed Feb 23 10:31:10 2005
References: <28735851.1109114883941.JavaMail.root@wamui01.slb.atl.earthlink.net> <42cd1bb8d2136e5a3d408aa57c4e2a1e@dodo.com.au> <p06110401be426d2f2ff0@[10.4.1.193]>

Spot on Henning!
Frank


On 23 Feb, 2005, at 17:26, Henning Wulff wrote:

> At 6:48 PM +1100 2/23/05, Rick Dykstra wrote:
>> I should be careful about what I wish for.  Porsche was turned around 
>> by quite radically changing its approach to design and manufacturing 
>> and through appealing to what they described as the 'changing demands 
>> of it's customers'.  I.e., more comfort and convenience, and more 
>> performance but not so raw please.
>>
>> So with Leica under Porsche's wing we would see the equivalent of the 
>> dropping of the air cooled engine - M and R mounts dropped for new 
>> designs that are better suited to digital, autofocus and image 
>> stabilising.  The purists would scream for a very long time and would 
>> look down early adopters of the new models, and would then go out and 
>> buy them too, helping make Leica one of the most profitable companies 
>> in Europe.   :-)
>>
>> What would the Leica equivalent of the Cayenne be?
>>
>> Rick.
>
> What we saw the other day:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4p4p9
>
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In reply to: Message from cwoods8 at peoplepc.com (cwoods) ([Leica] Re: Porsche and Leica)
Message from rdcb37 at dodo.com.au (Rick Dykstra) ([Leica] Re: Porsche and Leica)
Message from henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff) ([Leica] Re: Porsche and Leica)