Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >The future is today - Zeiss Ikon is Cosina > >Bernard >bernard.degaute@skynet.be > > > > Definitely not, Zeiss was looking for three important factors, quality, experience and price to put their design studies into production. They didn't have to look very far either. Cosina has proved that excellent quality lenses can be made at a reasonable or acceptable price Cosina has proved that they understand how to build RF bodies, also at a reasonable price Cosina has also proved that there is a market for these products Add to this that Cosina has let Epson finance the development of a digital RF, and in return has the technology to do it again for Zeiss, and that CZ probably has the most stringent QC requirements (maybe with the exception of Leicas lens QC) in the business. This all adds up to CZ winning hands down on all counts with minimalized technological and market research investment. From what I heard from the Zeiss people at Photokina they are all very excited, confident and more then optimistic about their new camera. You could feel that they are all determined that it should be a success and convinced that they are going in the right direction. Douglas