Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/03

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Subject: [Leica] DMR mk II ?
From: rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)
Date: Fri Feb 3 09:37:00 2006
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I'm not shure whether they would give up the R system. There's a certain 
stubbornness in Solms about this and other subjects. 

The only lens mount that might be profitable for R lenses is the Canon EOS 
mount. But as I have read in a Rob Galbraith interview with the Zeiss 
marketing manager, there are some patent issues making it difficult (or less 
profitable) to produce EOS lenses (see http://tinyurl.com/aktvd 8th 
question).

Leica R glass in Nikon F mount would assumedly not sell enough, and the 
hi-end side of this niche is already partially occupied by Zeiss Cosina. So 
there are only a few other mounts left. Pentax? No. Konica Minolta now Sony? 
No. Fourthirds? Eventually - but this would require new lens designs. My 
conclusion - there will be no R lenses in another mounts. And there will not 
be a new R camera in 2 years...

Didier





>....even though i had one of the first dmr that landed in us and i am
>happy with it, i think it is the end of the line for R unless they
>follow zeiss and roll out lenses for other mounts as we have discussed
>many many times



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