Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leica needed to cut a deal with a technology provider in AF and digital. Getting bought out wasn't what I was hoping for. But since they had already passed up so many opportunities or been rejected, the investors probably felt they could either sell now or give away later. As for the L lenses. I like them too and have a couple of them, but having been inside a few I can tell you that they are only slightly beefed up implementations of the EOS AF design style. They are not worth anywhere near what people pay for them! Competition from Leica would have done a lot to bring L prices down through old fashioned competition. But that's not going to happen. As for the RF area, that should be interesting to watch. Perhaps they will allow Leica to continue making curio Ms and charging 4K for them. But I certainly won't be buying them! Javier >From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com> >Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> >Subject: RE: [Leica] Japanese paper reports Canon to take over Leica >Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 00:53:21 -0500 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from server1.waverley.reid.org ([192.147.236.5]) by >bay0-mc6-f7.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sat, 31 >Dec 2005 21:50:43 -0800 >Received: from server1.waverley.reid.org (localhost.waverley.reid.org >[127.0.0.1])by server1.waverley.reid.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id >k015oYhM080090for <summarex@hotmail.com>; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 21:50:43 -0800 >(PST)(envelope-from lug-bounces+summarex=hotmail.com@leica-users.org) >Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net >[216.148.227.89])by server1.waverley.reid.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP >idk015oWer080085for <lug@leica-users.org>; Sat, 31 Dec 2005 21:50:32 -0800 >(PST)(envelope-from phong@doan-ltd.com) >Received: from aria (c-24-63-6-22.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[24.63.6.22])by >comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with SMTPid <20060101055030014008glvpe>; Sun, 1 Jan >2006 05:50:31 +0000 >X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jEHjJx36Oi8+Z3TmmkSEdPtfpLB7P/ybN8= >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 >X-BeenThere: lug@leica-users.org >X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 >Precedence: list >List-Id: Leica Users Group <lug.leica-users.org> >List-Unsubscribe: ><http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>,<mailto:lug-request@leica-users.org?subject=unsubscribe> >List-Archive: <http://leica-users.org/pipermail/lug> >List-Help: <mailto:lug-request@leica-users.org?subject=help> >List-Subscribe: ><http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>,<mailto:lug-request@leica-users.org?subject=subscribe> >Errors-To: lug-bounces+summarex=hotmail.com@leica-users.org >Return-Path: lug-bounces+summarex=hotmail.com@leica-users.org >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Jan 2006 05:50:43.0480 (UTC) >FILETIME=[4DCD7980:01C60E97] > >Javier Perez wrote: > > Huh? > > Who told you they make better lenses than Leitz? > > L lenses are inferior to Leitz lenses (and Zeiss lenses) > > both optically and mechanically. They may occasionally make a lens that > > MTFs better, but they pay for it in other ways. They still can't compete > > in the extreme WA area and my old 1966 90 Elmarit R makes better pics >than > > any L zoom! Even the Japanese made Leica zooms are easily as good as L >zooms. > > As for L primes, you pay for speed not image quality. Sorry but L glass > > represents a triumph of astute marketing, not quality or design. > > >Bofff ! I look at a Leica take-over / buy-out by Canon >as essentially a good thing. Without such a move, >I fear that Leica cannot possibly survive the next couple >of years. > >Anyway, though I believe that the best of Leica optics are >truly the very best, Leica is so far behind in the digital >race, that I think they stand no chance of survival on their >own. Even among the loyal hard core fans, much of the >disposable cash is diverted into digital photography. > >And I like Canon and their L lenses. > >- Phong > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information