Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]if the folks at Solms had been reading my BLOG back in the year Two Thousand they would have known better! from my year end "PAW" essay: "I learned, and here I can be bold for no one seems to agree with me and I'm usually catching up on trends about four years after they're no longer trendy, for all intents and purposes film is dead. Within the next five years, everything will be digital. Nobody wants to wait hours or days for their photos when they can see them instantly. All that remains before the funeral is ready is a higher resolution CCD chip and a moderately priced pro-level camera. Flame away." http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/paw/learned-2000/2.html I hope they're reading my blog now! kc Nathan Wajsman wrote: > OK, here is the Cliff Notes version: > > The first part explains the history of the company in the past few > years, leading up to the near-bankruptcy in 2004. It cites an unnamed > Leica marketing guy as saying that they believed AT THE TIME that the > market would settle into 70-30 digital/analogue or perhaps 80/20, > allowing Leica to continue focusing on the analogue cameras. Instead, > the analogue market collapsed much sooner than predicted, hence the > "deep shit".