Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In time all questions will be answered. As far as "no one else doing it:" The original Leica camera succeeded because "no one else was doing it." In fact, most innovations succeed because "no one else is doing it." And, of course, many fail for the same reason. We will see how this goes in good time. Predicting disaster is not useful in this case. Every time quirky Leica does something - disaster has been predicted. Yet, here they are, continuing to make some very fine, quirky, fun gear. Eventually these fast wides will appear on the used market a few of us may, then, have an opportunity to see what we can do with them. Or not. Fond regards, George george@imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Sep 11, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Frank Travel wrote: > You have to ask..... Why is no one else doing it? Because it is > corporate suicide? > > It is simple economics... Too high prices = No ( or insufficient) > customers = No company. > > Did the Summarits succeed? Did they sell a lot?