Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/01

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Subject: [Leica] R10 news
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Sat Nov 1 05:24:13 2008
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Frank what are you putting forward here?
I don't pretend to have any grasp on the numbers. It seems apparent that Dr
Kaufmann has made an assessment and put a great deal of his money behind his
judgement. I wish him well and Leica every success of course.
I respectfully disagree that Leica should be either trying to compete
directly with the Japanese giants or limit their endeavours to making lenses
for other folks' cameras. Carl Zeiss seem to have taken that as one aim, I
have no idea what proportion of their business this represents. I do like
their designs certainly. Ultimately my Leica glass is the best in the world,
and their digital rangefinder is the ONLY choice. I like Leica just how they
are. Whether I can keep funding new Leica stuff as an amateur in the current
climate is rather a separate issue.   


Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
Maike Harbets speaks on the S2. .... So we will drop down this technology to
our other systems.
Our priority is to modernise the R system which will be in the end an R10,
definitely.

-----Original Message-----
Subject: RE: [Leica] R10 news

How about getting real over the fiscal rationality of the S2 vs the R10?

With limited R+D money, you need to make rational choices and therefore
priorities.....  

A company can only make a few ( to no) wrong choices.......

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net


Not sure what  Leica need to compete. Perhaps it is time to Leica to
recognise that they can best serve Leica enthusiasts by offering lenses in
C, N and S mounts, just like CZ.




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