[Leica] Japanese paper reports Canon to take over Leica

[summarex at hotmail.com (Javier Perez)]

*That's illegal and if the German government receives a complaint from a 
Canon competitor they would have to stop it even with the new Christian 
Democrat government in pwer.

*Also, the story could be half right. They could have been sold, but not to 
Canon.

I'm still holding out hope that it's all new year's bullshit.
Javier


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>Canon could also have bought Leica to deny it to any of it's  
>competitors...
>Maybe Sony or the 4/3rd crowd was shopping for a lens shop. $20-25  million
>is chicken feed to Canon.
>
>feli
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>On Jan 1, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote:
>
>>Why not?
>>The , in former years , much maligned Cosina gets VERY close to  Leica M 
>>lens quality, at a fraction of the price.
>>I'm sure big operators like Canon could too - agreed, not as cheap  as 
>>some of their stuff is at present. What Canon needs is a series  of lenses 
>>to match the quality of their DSLRs,
>>so why not a hybrid using Leica glass? Of course at a price similar  to 
>>their L series lenses.
>>
>>As to Sony, who knows what their planned Konica-Minolta-Sony DSLRs  will 
>>be like?
>>Douglas
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