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Subject: [Leica] for those interested in future Leica developments
From: dstella1 at ameritech.net (Dante Stella)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 22:03:41 -0500
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600-700 film cameras a year has to make that one of the world's most 
exclusive products!

On Nov 14, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:

> CEO Alfred Schopf visited Australia recently and provided an interview to
> Paul Burrows, editor of 'Camera' magazine here. It's a very good local
> publication and I thoroughly recommend this article (and the magazine) in
> their Nov/Dec 2013 issue to anyone who can obtain it.
> You can get it as a digital edition apparently at
> www.zinio.com/camera
> 
> I think that I can quote small portions of particular interest here without
> transgression. Perhaps the complete interview will become available?
> 
> All direct transcriptions from parts of answers by CEO:
> 
> ..."to be honest, I'm not 100 percent sure where the D-SLR market is going
> to be in the future. The mirrorless cameras are coming on and on and on and
> I'm not entirely convinced that in ten years time we will have a D-SLR
> market"
> 
> When asked will there ever be a Leica compact system camera:
> 
> "We will have one, definitely. And it will, of course, be quite different
> to M system. We want to have autofocus with such a system and we may well
> have an APSC size sensor rather than a bigger one......."
> 
> Getting back to Leica's plans for a CSC, Alfred states:
> "It will be a German built camera, however I'm not sure we can make all of
> the lenses made in Germany because we are talking about a different price
> range to M system so I could imagine that we do some fixed focal length
> lenses in Germany and maybe with the zooms we will co-operate with a
> partner"
> He stresses that Leica won't be building on Panasonic's Micro Four Thirds
> format.
> 
> On film cameras, Alfred Schopf  said:
> "We are now the world's biggest manufacturer of film cameras on the
> planet- because we are the only one, more or less. As long as we get orders
> we will continue. At the moment we get between 600 and 700 orders per
> year............"
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> 
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