Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/17

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Subject: Subject: Re: [Leica] New M mount Sonnar 1.5 50mm (hoax?)
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Sat Jun 17 23:15:39 2006
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On 6/18/06, G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> In Australia, the current distributor (who is also the Hasselblad
> distributor) don't even have a single word on them on their web site.
> Interesting marketing strategy for an (admittedly niche)quality product.

I think Zeiss has decided to take back distribution from Hasselblad
and do it themselves. That's probably why. I think they're right in
the middle of this now. Stephen Gandy at CameraQuest had some issues
in connection with this change in marketing (he got shafted).

Daniel
Replies: Reply from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) (Subject: Re: [Leica] New M mount Sonnar 1.5 50mm (hoax?))
Reply from cchan at pldtdsl.net (Nelson Chan) ([Leica] Jupiter Recommendation)
 In reply to: Message from hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson) (Subject: Re: [Leica] New M mount Sonnar 1.5 50mm (hoax?))