Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/26

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Article in LA Times
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Tue Apr 26 09:07:32 2005
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>At 0:34 PM -0400 05.4.25, Jim Shulman wrote:
>>The obvious question (or at least obvious to me): why doesn't Cosima
>>purchase Leica?  Mr. K obviously has an incredible flair for classic RF
>>cameras and accessories--if any manufacturer understands the mindset of
>>making this type of equipment, it's Cosima.
>
>The question is why spend that much money on a business that is 
>losing money? The only way he could make money would be to buy the 
>name, trash the M and R series, and relabel Bessas as Leicas. I 
>doubt that is what he would like to remembered for.
>
>Mr. Kobayashi is a brilliant engineer and company executive. He 
>isn't going to spend money on any project that risks losing money. 
>That's one of the reasons he tied with Epson with the R-D1, which 
>has yet to break even for Epson, but profitable for OEM Cosina.
>
>Good money is on him strengthening the ties with Zeiss. My rumor 
>mill here says Zeiss are  close to getting the Contax name back from 
>Kyocera and giving it to Cosina.
>
>Karen
>

Mr. Kobayashi has said a number of times that he's not interested in 
buying Leica.

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In reply to: Message from jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman) ([Leica] Leica Article in LA Times)
Message from mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura) ([Leica] Leica Article in LA Times)