Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/04

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Subject: [Leica] New Zeiss Ikon: they know their target...
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Mon Oct 4 10:05:04 2004

Masochism passed off as 'history.' Obviously they're staking a claim for
having been an early adopter - which is true.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Lucien
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 12:43 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] New Zeiss Ikon: they know their target...



B. D. Colen wrote :

> And as to who ever it was pointing out that Zeiss failed with their 
> digital SLR system - yup, they did fail. But failing means they at
> least tried. And perhaps they failed because they didn't make a
serious
> enough commitment to it - too few lenses, etc. This time they seem
much
> more serious - at least from a marketing standpoint.

B.D.,

I think one of the reasons the Contax N Digital failed was the new lens 
mount.

I don't know why that "failure" was on the Kyocera Photokina booth last 
week.

Masochism ?

Lucien

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