Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/22

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Subject: [Leica] 20d/d70/rd1
From: msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad)
Date: Wed Jun 22 22:02:41 2005
References: <42BA06A8.5070303@gmx.de> <55ddf627ce37ef72a6868ce9f4246195@bellsouth.net> <75D04B50-B150-40C1-9CD8-121F938487D7@charter.net> <6.1.0.6.2.20050622200119.05f28aa0@192.168.100.42> <AD9AA77F-89EA-48A3-BE84-67C4D0218A93@earthlink.net>

tamron pays the license fees (cuz they are a big company and oem a lot
of lenses for others and they are good people). sigma uses reverse
engineering and every once in a while is there is problem with one
their lenses and a particular new camera

On 6/22/05, feli <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> On Jun 22, 2005, at 8:03 PM, Richard wrote:
> 
> > If Leica is smart, they would buy up the stock of R-EOS lens
> > adapter and sell them at $50 a pop when you purchase a new R-lens.
> > That may by itself save Leica for the time being...
> 
> Does anyone know if Sigma had to pay a licensing fee to Canon in
> order to make lenses for their mount?
> Same for Tameron.  We've probably  been over this before, but what
> exactly is stopping Leica from
> making lenses for Nikon or Canon?
> 
> 
> feli
> 
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