Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That brings us back once again to the suggestion that if Leica is to have a future, that future probably lies in producing lenses in Canon and Nikon mounts, or selling Leica lenses with red dotted Canon and Nikon adapters, rather than wasting money on trying to produce digital backs for a tiny handful of diehard fans. On 8/24/05 4:40 PM, "Douglas Herr" <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote: > Peter Dzwig <pdzwig@summaventures.com> wrote: > >> What they actually need is to devise a marketing strategy and accompanying >> technology that they **can** work with, even if different from everyone >> else. > > I believe that Leica is acutely aware of the rapidly changing market and > the > accelerating pace of product cycles, but is not big enough to compete with > that strategy. Their best bet IMHO is to expoit the market niche that says > "It's the glass, stupid!" and the rest of the hardware just captures the > photons. > > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information