[Leica] why leica should have hired me years ago ....

[len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)]

Kyle,

You're too cool!

And yes, I for one accept your apology.

Len


On Dec 17, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> A few years back the kind folks in the NY lug invited me to give a  
> talk at the Institute for Contemporary Photography. After the  
> lecture, a guy from Leica came up to me and handed me his card  
> saying "Call me, we could use someone like you" -- I called, he  
> didn't call back, and it fell off my radar. I realize now that if  
> Leica goes down the tubes it is entirely because I was not more  
> persistant about that phone call.
>
> Had they offered me a job, I would have immediately suggested that  
> they partner with Casio or some other low-rent company making a 2  
> megapixel point and shoot. We would have pulled one of those  
> craptastic cameras apart and glued it onto the back of an M6. It  
> would have jutted out about an inch and a quarter from the back of  
> your camera and produced mediocre images and if you peeled off the  
> LEICA sticker you could probably see "made in china" on it, but we  
> would have sold millions of them. All the Leica owners would have  
> said "look at this! a digital back for my M3! The world is a  
> marvelous place!" they'd take a few photos at birthday parties and  
> the back would run out of batteries that they'd neglect to replace,  
> but on the shelf, it would look pretty good and people would go  
> about their business. Meanwhile, using the massive influx of cash,  
> Leica would have instituted my MasterVorkenzee: The Leica Young  
> Photographers Program where we would sell re-badged Nikon D70's  
> with a Leica R sticker on the front at prices about 30% higher than  
> the actual D70 but about 1/4 the retail price of the Leica R10d  
> (which is how the rest of us would be buying them), all these kids  
> would grow up thinking that Leica was the Shiznitt and right now  
> we'd be putting out our third Digital Rangefinder which would  
> actually be 12 megapixels, thin as a IIIA, no flair or magenting,  
> and it would work like a dream.
>
> sorry i let you down people.
>
> kc
>
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