Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/23

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Subject: [Leica] 20d/d70/rd1
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Thu Jun 23 00:57:55 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> <9FB6FD6F-B65A-4FC9-A6E2-91330474869C@btinternet.com>

If Leica could produce lenses with some way of emulating the aperture for 
Canon 
or Nikon this would be good enough for me.
Douglas

Frank Dernie wrote:

> Whilst I would welcome Leica lenses in other mounts I don't think  
> autofocus lenses are possible to the same precision tha Leica uses -  
> whether this is necessary may be debated - but the electronic  diaphragm 
> design and implementation would be very expensive  considering the small 
> quantity to amortise the investment.
> I read that Canon sells more than 100,000 EOS 350 digitals per month.  
> That means in 3 months they sell more than Leica made of the M3,  their 
> best selling camera on record. No wonder they can do them so  cheap!
> Frank
> 
> On 23 Jun, 2005, at 04:10, feli 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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