Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/27

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Subject: [Leica] Erwin telling it like it may be
From: msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad)
Date: Wed Feb 27 23:36:20 2008
References: <541F0D48-41FF-4D3B-80FA-755AE07D2045@mac.com> <3cad89990802271758w30b740d9h9922ee27828dd912@mail.gmail.com> <0347D14D-309B-418C-9F6A-0D9F8C8C07D3@nathanfoto.com>

though i agree that leica makes good optics may be the best; they also
charge a premium and i argue that for these kind of prices nikon or
canon could also do as good of job or better using their own staff.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Nathan Wajsman <nathan@nathanfoto.com> 
wrote:
> This is what I have been predicting for several years. I suppose my
>  timing was off, but I still believe that the only commercial future
>  for Leica is as a subsidiary of a larger company where Leica's
>  indisputable excellence in designing optics can be leveraged and
>  properly valued.
>
>  Nathan
>
>
>  On 28-feb-2008, at 2:58, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>
>  >  But I am afraid that I see Leica sold to one of
>  > Panasonic/Sony/Canon/Nikon/Samsung in the not very distant future.
>  >
>
>  Nathan Wajsman
>  nathan@nathanfoto.com
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