Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Relax Geoff, the LUG goes through this discussion everytime Leica makes these announcements. It will blow over in a couple more days. Personally i would love to have the new 50 Summicron, if the price was more realistic. ;) Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 12:36:07 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Monochrome Fair go guys! How did discussion of new Leica products get taken over by an Occupy LUG movement? I respect people's personal circumstances of course but in my view these socio/political discussions don't belong in this open forum. Leica Camera announced some new products that are expensive and will only sell to a niche market. That ought to be a very familiar scenarion to all and despite whatever economic conditions recently Leica Camera has done better than for many years and is selling everything that they can make. In the case of M lenses especially, into a long waiting list too. I'm unlikely to buy any M Monochrom but I can certainly see the appeal to dedicated photographers such as Tina. The new APO Summicron ASPH is a remarkable achievement too and yes the price is very high indeed. I'm looking forward to what their advances will mean for the next generation M as well. Some may have noticed that Leica Camera has booked a much larger area for the coming Photokina this time. I doubt that we've heard of all of their new products announcements for 2012 yet either. Cheers, Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information