Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:44 AM 11/17/99 -0500, Jim Shulman wrote: >For those more technically adept than I: are there significant design >limitations in NOT producing all the lenses in LTM? It the tooling for LTM >that much more expensive? Could it be that Leica abandoned the LTM years and years ago, and it's only collectors and people who like antique cameras who still use that mount? It would be crazy to hobble all their lenses with a mount that's used less and less as time goes by. The competitive LTM cameras are a tiny fraction of their market. Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.neteze.com/ewelch He who laughs last thinks slowest!