Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:17:38 -0500 >From: Rob Schneider-Laura Tully <robslaurat@earthlink.net> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Save Leica! (was: Ted Grant's Ravings) Ahhhh! Heresy! Heresy! Burn the witch! Burn the witch! Bob (who bets he could buy a 'discontinued' camera from someone for less) Keene >> >Here's where I jump off the bandwagon. I honestly don't care whether Leica >Camera A.G. is in business next year or not. If they go out of business >tomorrow, there are (and will continue to be) tens of thousands of M2, M3, >M4(-2/-P), M5, M6 bodies on the market or ready for market. There are >probably hundreds of thousands of lenses of all vintages and focal lengths. >There are a number of highly skilled, dedicated, independent repair people. >So what if the Leica M becomes the Rolleiflex of 35mm? The cameras and >lenses will continue to function, will continue to be repairable, and will >continue to be for sale on the used market for decades. > snipz >This is the Leica USERS group, right? It's not the Leica investors, >sympathizers or sycophants (well . . . .) group. At least not for me. If >Leica can figure out how to maintain its niche in the 35mm marketplace, more >power to 'em. If they fold, so long, it was nice to know ya. But I have a >hunch that my M6's and lenses won't turn to dust the day they lock the >factory gates. And I won't stop using them, either. > >Rob Schneider