Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Spot on Rabs On 9 Mar, 2010, at 21:08, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> Older inherited cameras need service. Younger customers buy used & trade >> for new later when they're older. A healthy used market means equipment >> can be sold to help pay for the latest (new) equipment. The sky is not >> falling. >> >> Doug Herr > > > I was told in 1965 than there is a company which makes a camera which has > interchangeable lenses as I wanted a tele for my Voigtl?nder Vito BL when I > was 13. I wanted to "zoom in" I was told that Leitz blew it not getting > into making SLR's soon enough and they'd probably not make it through the > week. Get a Nikon F everybody said. > I was told that about every year since. Leica would not make it through the > month or year. > When I joined the LUG a dozen years ago I was repeatedly told they would > be > going under for not going AF*. And not updating their cloth shutter. The > revolutionary Contax G pile of junk had just come out and the super geeks > were wild about it. It was for sure going to put Leica out of business > unless they came out with a cheap answer for it. Or make lenses to fit it. > And four years ago on the LUG I was told about the demise of Leica which > was > spoken of in the past tense by everybody on the entire LUG save one or two. > One. As this new thing called "digital photography" they also saw as a fly > by night fad and they didn't jump on the band wagon soon enough. > Leica jumps on the band wagon LATE every time we can count on that for > sure. > When the holographic cameras come out they're going to sit on it for > awhile. > And come out with one way late and for way too much money. > But I guarantee you'll think your mother in laws head is slowly rotating > two > feet over your kitchen table and the remote control will have a red dot on > it. > > We can count on them doing what they have been doing for 87 years since the > 25 prototypes; making the best gear out there. > They are not going to come out with a cheap plastic DSLR to compete with > the > masses who are out buying cropped Nikons and Canon tupperware monsters. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > *auto focus > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information