Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rest assured that the LUG is monitored by both Leica USA and Solms. I have this on good authority from my contacts in both Northvale and Solms. Some bad news from Solms. Sönke Peters, M Product Manager and maintainer of the Solms website, has left the company effective June 30th. He was a good friend and a strong supporter of the LUG and the LHSA. He will be sorely missed. More bad news from Solms: Klaus Dieter Hoffman, CEO of Leica Camera, has been sacked. Apparently as a result of poor stock performance in the last two quarters. It seems that someone needed to take the blame. Rather unfair, since most of Leica's stock woes can be directly traced to poor sales in the Pacific Rim. Leica needs to make a big impact at Photokina 98 in September. Let's all keep our fingers crossed for the new M body that has been talked about so much on the LUG. Bill Rosauer