Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information