Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/05

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Subject: [Leica] Sad news for Flexers
From: luisripoll at telefonica.net (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 22:47:06 +0100
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I'm agree Philippe, the R is for me a great "souvenir", the R lenses  
was really great, even if I sold all my Leica R gear 5 years ago,

Amiti?s
Lluis


El 05/03/2009, a las 18:13, Philippe AMARD escribi?:

> I got the original message too.
> Well, they must have needed that cash badly.
> We may also conclude the guarantee period on the last R(s?) they  
> sold is now out... which tells a lot about film camera sales over  
> the past months/years.
> Cleaning the drawers before new management comes in also makes  
> sense, in a way.
>
> The good news, for some, is that Leica is now a company totally  
> committed to digital.
> The sad news is that it further excludes R users of their target  
> population.
> I feel I'm more the latter, and will have to keep learning to do  
> without Leica.
> Pity the whole experiment is sort of a 'way of the cross' ; I really  
> had had fun with the R9.2 Diesel:
> http://gallery.lfi-online.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=36
>  
>  
> <http://gallery.lfi-online.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=36
>  
> >
>
> Bien amicalement.
> Phili^^e
>
> Chris L wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> From: Miha Golobic <miha.golobic at gmail.com>
>> To: leicareflex at freelists.org
>> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 10:56:45 AM
>> Subject: [LRflex] A sad news for Flexers
>>
>> I got this e-mail from Leica forum:
>>  After the good news regarding the LEICA M8 Firmware, not so  
>> positive news about the Leica R-system in this newsletter issue:
>> Leica yesterday informed their sales agencies and dealers, that  
>> Leica has no more stock of Leica R9 cameras and Leica R Lenses. A  
>> new production is not planned either.
>> Leica also writes that they are working hard "on making a  
>> generation change possible for the current R-System", for this the  
>> knowledge gained through the development of the LEICA S2 has helped  
>> tremendously.
>> This fits into the Leica's and Dr. Kaufmann's commitment to a  
>> digital R camera during the photokina.
>> In this moment I have no clue what this means for the Leica R  
>> photographers among us. But I'll keep on pestering my contact  
>> persons with questions in order to keep you up to date.
>> Discuss this topic in this thread.
>> Advertisement
>> The good news:
>> Sh Photo has acquired the whole remaining stock of Leica R cameras  
>> and lenses from Leica Camera AG and offers it in their online shop.
>> Here it is:
>> The last chance to acquire new R9 cameras and lenses!
>> Order now, stock is limited!
>>  Oh great!!  I absolutely hate SHP/Arsenal....
>>
>> Hope this really is a bad rumour, as it bodes ill to any future R10.
>>
>>
>>
>
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Replies: Reply from michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl (Michiel Fokkema) ([Leica] Sad news for Flexers)
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