Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I would like to be the first one to buy a digital Leica M in the U.S. I got Tamarkin's first Leica M7 - which was to have been the first in the U.S. for retail sale. As an optometrist who has spent a great deal of my life studying optics and improving patient's vision, I love Leica glass. Their factory tour a few years ago in Solms really showed how small scale they were and how delicate a company it really is financially. I'll keep my fingers crossed they can pull it off. This will be the gamble that will either save the company or bankrupt it. In the mean time, I'll use another digital body with a lens adapter for the their R glass. Richard Clompus, OD Roanoke, VA > > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > Date: 2004/02/07 Sat PM 02:43:22 EST > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Subject: RE: [Leica] Digital M - was Leica to Restructure, Cut Staff > > I have never had a doubt in the world that someone could pull it off > technically - the question is whether someone has the money and the > commitment. This, coupled with the rest of the Leica news, suggests that > even Leica realizes the future for a film camera company is indeed > bleak, and that any camera company that wants to stay afloat will have > to do it with digital. So if they can sell those bonds...I'm ready to > order...:-) - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html