Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From Luminous Landscape: *** There is a news report today from <http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/0/0,3672,2364672,00.html>German Television (http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/0/0,3672,2364672,00.html) that Leica has been saved from insolvency by an investment of Euros 23 Million by the luxury goods company Hermes, one of its corporate owners, and the Austrian company ACM. This is the second time in as many years that Leica has teetered on the brink. Let's hope that the company can accelerate the development of its Digital M camera, as this looks to be the one product that might save this grand old lady of photography from functional irrelevance in today's digital-oriented marketplace. Now if Leica had the inclination or wherewithal to produce its superb R series lenses in fully functional mounts for major DLSR camera systems such as Canon, they'd have a new source of revenue as well as enhanced market cache, relevance, and distribution channel penetration. Possible? Yes! Likely? Who knows? // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)