Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>leica offers now (or since a few month) a new battery-cap with slit, >wich you can open easy just with a coin (and not with some pince you >hardly can reach in the certain moment...) Wow! Now there is a technological advance! I'm sure that Leica waited until this technology and design was fully mature before releasing it. To paraphrase Dan'l Post: I think Leica, for the most part, has, and is, slowly making history by comng up with relatively 'fast' battery cap. Unfortunately, such precision, and careful research takes time; they can't work out all the 'bugs' overnight. For years the camera industry, particularly the Japanese made great inroads into the market using Leitz and Zeiss designs- made some good battery caps too, but when it came to introducing innovations, they were somewhat underwhelming. All the while, Leitz/Leica has been plodding along, and now is starting to introduce some pretty amazing battery caps. It'll take the rest of the industry a long time and a lot of back engineering to come close. I just hope the prices aren't so high on the Leica stuff that I won't be able to get some of it for my own! (Apologies to Dan'l Post)