[Leica] Say Hello to Hermes Leica -- THE Photog's FashionStatement

[red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)]

Carl Zeiss has used the yashica / Contax connection to sell SLR lense.  Some
or most or all of these lenses were licensed to Yashica for manufacture and
sale.

As far as I know, it has been probably 40 years since Zeiss had a 35mm
SLR... and at that there only were 2 bodies ever.. The Contaflex and the
Contarex.  They have been very involved in the Hasselblad line of lenses,
and, to a lesser extent,  I believe in the Rollei line of 6x6 lenses.  That
is it in a manufacturing way for consumer photographic optics..

Personally I think that Leica would be best off with Hasselblad, Sinar,
Linhof, etc. as a combo partner.  At lleast they are committed to
photography.  I doubt that Hernmes is interested in photography in its own
right.

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net


In the meantime CZ does not have an SLR body to sell ists lenses, think of
the lost revenues and goodwill.