Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Dec 3, 2008, at 3:33 PM, H&ECummer wrote: >> As for LFI and Leica, I think Alastair tried to get them interested >> in >> some way but with no luck. I guess their marketing department was >> busy >> dreaming up new Special Editions at the time. >> >> Saludos, >> Nathan > > Hi Nathan, > I approached Stephen Lee about FOM II and introduced Alastair to him. > Alastair made a presentation about it to Stephen and then nothing > happened. > I wrote to Stephen pointing out that the photographs in the foyer of > the Solms > office did not emphasize the image quality that Leica lenses were > capable of producing. > (They were in fact out of focus grainy swirls of sh*t). Stephen did > find the time to > write back to me that it was Leica policy to allow creative vision > to the photographers > they worked with. But there was never any response to Alastair's > presentation. > Very strange in my opinion. very strange, but he apparantly blew it, and he's gone... likely the people who run things now may know nothing about it... what's next? Steve