Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Visoflex and R mount lenses
From: arbos@mac.com
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 21:20:35 +0100
References: <B6C9F983.1C55%joseph@yao.com>

Joseph-
If I correctly understood what Leica people spoke in English at the 
Photokina meeting, "their" proposal of producing Leica glass in other 
mounts were rejected by those manufacturers. Any idea why......?

Mikiro
http://arbos.silva.net


At 2:18 AM +0800 01.3.6, Dr. Joseph Yao wrote:
>on 6/3/01 1:56 AM, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote:
>
>>  And all of this raises once again the quite obvious question of why
>>  Leica doesn't put Leica glass in other mounts....and make the lenses
>>  available to folks using Canon and Nikon bodies...Now THERE's a ready
>>  market...
>
>I guess it has something to do with their (lack of) production capacity.
>They cannot even make enough lenses in their own M and R mounts.
>
>Or as recent experience suggested, they don't like manufacturing at all.
>They much prefer writing brochures detailing their glorious past. ;-)
>
>Joseph

In reply to: Message from "Dr. Joseph Yao" <joseph@yao.com> (Re: [Leica] Re: Visoflex and R mount lenses)