Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And Erwin has apparently, at least some insight into Mr Lee's approach too, having conversed with him several times. Personally I am really surprised at the depth of feeling that is emerging from on dealers on this. I'm not a dealer of course, just a customer. It may be that the upgrade program was what incensed those dealers?? Or supply issues? I thought that a number of the issues that have emerged regarding the M8 were ones that Mr Lee had inherited, for example signing those 4000 letters of apology to early M8 owners. I would have thought he was in no way responsible for the original design imperfections that led to those. Similarly I thought that overseeing the release of the Summarit range was a positive step. Does anyone remember that Herr Kornelius Mueller, formerly of Zeiss, has joined the Leica team during Mr Lee's stewardship? I also thought that the widely rumoured R10 might be a huge leap forward and Mr Lee has publicly championed the R line since joining. Production shortages, servicing delays etc are not unique to the most recent Leica period. For that matter not unique to Leica either. However, these days any such problems are vastly and rapidly publicised by the nature of the web. Fair to say magnified too, in my view. I don't see any issue with the new website either, even though it seems to have generated a lot of negative response. All the information is still there. There is a veneer of glossy promotion, why not? I voted with my wallet and got the M8, new from an authorised leading dealer (my sixth M body but first new). I think that the next few months are going to be 'interesting times' leading up to Photokina. Cheers Geoff -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [Leica] Interesting news Well, at the moment everyone is speculating. But Erwin's speculations seem more plausible than those of the editor of the AP and others. I expect there are people on this list who know why this happened, but they aint talking - yet. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Unsworth" <lug@steveunsworth.co.uk> To: "LUG Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, 24 February, 2008 12:29 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Interesting news > In summary form... > > "I'm speculating too" > > <grin> > > Steve > > > On 24/2/08 17:20, "A. Lal" <alal@duke.poly.edu> wrote: > >>> From Erwin: >> >> http://www.imx.nl/photo/viewpoint/leica_angst_and_the_departu.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information