[Leica] LHSA meeting in Wetzlar; Leica Camera AG

[msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad)]

i don't know about that,better keep money in banks, they pay 5% now

On 10/11/06, Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> wrote:
> Thanks for this report. Makes me think a few shares in Leica might prove a
> good investment afterall ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
> > Hi LUG friends!
> >
> > I have resubscribed after a fairly lengthy absence to bring you all up to
> > date on what I have learned about Leica Camera AG and its future at the
> > LHSA
> > meeting in Wetzlar ten days ago. Had an opportunity to visit at some
> > length
> > with Andreas Kaufmann whose Company has bought full control of Leica
> > Camera
> > and also with Steven Lee, an American who has assumed a senior management
> > role with the Company. Both are photography and Leica enthusiasts and 
> > have
> > a
> > shared vision of where they hope to take the Company. As you doubtless
> > have
> > read, Leica introduced not only the M-8 but also three other digital
> > cameras. The Leica booths at Photokina were mobbed, especially, 
> > naturally,
> > that of the M-8.
> >
> > What is most impressive is the enthusiasm at the factory. All of the
> > feedback from our friends at the Company made clear that there is a new
> > sense of excitement at Solms, that the tacit concern amongst employees 
> > for
> > the Company's survival is gone. A truly great sense of optimism invests
> > the
> > place. As several staff members put it, everyone is eager to come to work
> > again.  Evidence of this is that despite the fact that Tuesday 3 October
> > was
> > a national holiday and almost everyone takes off the Monday (2 October) 
> > to
> > make a long weekend, production workers on the M-8 came to work
> > voluntarily
> > to ensure that the Company continues to produce enough cameras to meet
> > demand.
> >
> > I had a chance to read only a very few M-8 comments in the LUG archive 
> > and
> > will comment on just one issue, the coding of older lenses for the M-8. I
> > am
> > ill-equipped to answer this technically but as I understand it,  because
> > of
> > the oblique angle at which light rays from shorter focal length lenses
> > reach
> > the sensor, Leica has placed before the sensor a device that adjusts the
> > rays to reduce or elminate that effect. The code on older lenses tells 
> > the
> > camera what adjustment is indicated for that focal length. I have been
> > told
> > that this is more important for lenses under 50mm, that the deleterious
> > effect at 50mm is not too great and at the longer focal lengths, the
> > lenses
> > probably do not really need the coding.
> >
> > The LHSA meeting really was pretty wonderful, on Friday a good day of
> > programs and projection presentations and the banquet at which both Mr.
> > Kaufmann and Steven Lee spoke about their enthusiasm for Leica and 
> > briefly
> > about their plans for the future. Saturday visit to Photokina in Cologne,
> > Sunday back to Photoboerse, a massive trade fair, Monday factory visit 
> > and
> > visit to Braunfels and the castle, Tuesday a luncheon cruise on the Rhine
> > and a medieval banquet and departure Wednesday. Twenty members stayed on
> > through Wednesday for a Leica Akademie program with the M-8.
> >
> > Surprising number of our members attended carrying..........digital
> > cameras!
> > We're not all old f-rts stroking our - you will pardon the expression -
> > Thambars!
> >
> > Cheerio all,
> >
> > Seth
> >
> >
> >
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