[Leica] Hans Peter Cohn honored by LHSA

[red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)]

I will snip all...

There is little data anywhere that Leica had any influential input into the
Panasonic lenses.  They might have been consulted, and some of the inputs
they gave incorporated into the design, but knowing the 2 cultures from a
business point of view, this seems unlikely.  As far as a real role, like
Leica designed and Panasonic produced?  I would need a lot of proof to
believe.  It still appears to be a marketing agreement, and branding thing.

Yes, smaller sensors make for faster, smaller, lighter, and maybe cheaper
( an issue of marketing, not production costs).  But the market is asking
for bigger sensors so that the WA lenses reamin wide......( you could always
design WA lenses for smaller sensors, but then what would you do with the
bag full of lenses you already have purchased?)

A la carte can serve some percentage of the Leica buyers.  It is fun to make
up cameras on line and figure how much money you are saviing with your run
of the mill, 50 year old M3.  I do not see it as a real profit driver,
rather as a thief of resources in the factory that could better be spent
making real innovative products or promoting products through seminars, day
outings, shoots, or a plethora of other activities to sell Leica, and Leica
glass.


Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net