Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:42 PM 7/13/06 -0400, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >Surely you jest. Compared to Canon and Nikon, Leica is no more than a >flea on an elephant. As for losing it in the 60s, it was Leica that was >the loser. In 1963 Leica dominated the expensive 35 mm camera market, >selling nearly four times as many cameras as Nikon. By 1966 the SLR >emerged as the preferred camera form and Nikon's sales were half again >greater than Leica's and Canon's sales were growing fast. Both >companies read the tea leaves (financial reports), abandoned the RF >camera and never looked back. To keep the record complete, Canon continued to market RF lenses until 1980 or 1981. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!