Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Clompus No, thanks. I will wait till the bugs are worked out before I buy. Trying to be the "first kid on the block to own one" was never my way. I left it for the rich kids, then I bought it from them. Jerry rclompus@cox.net wrote: > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html