Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]well Marc, perhaps you should read more carefully. go back and read the post. I said nothing about the optical quality of the German Voigtlander lenses, nothing. the quote was "IF the old Voigtlander had made products like these, it's my guess they would have stayed in business." Today's Cosina Voigtlander LTM lenses and bodies are selling quite well by all accounts, far beyond expectations. German Voigtlander products, however, did not sell well enough to survive. If Voigtlander in the 1950's, Leica's heyday, made a large range of readily available low priced quality LTM products like Cosina is today, things might have been different. If the Japanese were allowed by occupying forces to make LTM cameras, why not Voigtlander?. Yes, I know about the LTM Nokton, but for whatever reason Voightlander did not offer a complete LTM lens lineup, nor a LTM camera. Marc, if someone's post is unclear to you , why not ask? Stephen Marc James Small wrote: > At 03:44 PM 10/1/1999 -0700, Stephen of the multiple family names wrote: > >companies that don't sell enough merchandise to stay in business don't > survive, > >regardless of how great their products are. > > Whoa, there, Stephen! Your initial comment was that Voigtlander didn't > make superb lenses, and this is what I was responding to; now you try to > toss a new spin on it when the going gets too tough for you. > > The historical record on this is clear: Voigtlander produced outstanding > lenses from start to finish. And this is why Zeiss bought them, gutted > them of their lens folks, then put the remainder with Zeiss > Ikon-Voigtlander and tossed it to the knacker's yard. > > Kindly, get your facts straight before opining on things you seem to know > little about. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!