Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Isn't Schneider's name also on Samsung and Rollei P&S cameras? Maybe Leica wants to avoid name association with them, or perhaps Samsung/Rollei have rights to the name and don't want to be associated with Leica! Tom Schofield >Leica announced it's new Schneider designed SUPER-ELMARIT-R 15mm f/2.8 >ASPH. In an newsletter email and on their website. >ON their website is a PDF. >http://www.leica-camera.com/imperia/md/content/pdf/rsystem/15.pdf > >and no mention of it being a Schneider JSK lens which is a real selling >point. > >To me not having it use the normal nomoclature for Schneider desinged >wide angle lens such as "Super Angulon" was a mild mistake. >If it did my next M6 would be an R8. >But there is no mention of Schneider on the website or in the PDF and i >think that is a BIG mistake. > >A big selling point, if you ask me the fact that JSK was involved with it. >And no clue, the price so far that i could find. > > > >Mark Rabiner >Portland, Oregon USA >http://www.markrabiner.com >-- _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html