Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If there were no Leica gadgets to sell, or nobody interested in buying these (sometimes expensive and often useful) items, there would be no extra profits for Leica Solms gained thru merchandising. This would lead towards less overall profits for the camera maker, which in turn would imply less investment money for R&D, so less innovative cameras and lenses, possibly even no R8.2 or R9 (AF?), surely no R8 motordrive for 1998 (the motorwinder only just came out), and I could go on like this for a long time. Morale of the story: buy as much items as you can from the Leica Collection catalogue, it is all going to the nice and wonderful people at Solms who will, in return, make even better cameras and lenses, beat the Jap competition, provide more jobs for Germans and Portuguese (and on a larger scale for all their friendly foreign distributors), and -most important of all- be able to put more effort in effective quality control before shipping items to the end consumers... My wish list for 1998 or is this asked for too much? :-) Pascal Belgium - -------------------------------------------------------- Message sent on a Macintosh PowerBook G3, the world's fastest laptop - -------------------------------------------------------- <<< PGP public key available on request >>>