Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/28

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Mini M
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 21:21:34 -0400

What did we hear at Wetzlar a couple of years ago?
That the Great War would soon be over and instead of another microscope
we're coming out with a small camera which  will use two frames of movie
film?


On 5/28/13 6:13 PM, "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor at comcast.net> wrote:

> Geoff - Yeah, the cat's out of the box, so to speak.  I don't know if the
> reasoning is faulty or not, but it's hard to understand why Leica would
> release such a camera as this into an already competitive market.  It also 
> is
> not in keeping with what we heard at Wetzlar a couple of years ago.
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
> 
> On May 28, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
> 
>> No hints from my dealer Richard. I actually know the head folks in Leica
>> Australia personally too but they sure won't ever leak on new product
>> announcements. Quite rightly so too.
>> I do believe that a (real?) photo has leaked now on a rumour site though? 
>> I
>> suspected that people were reading way too much into the teaser ads,
>> myself. Based on past public info I doubt that they would have any 
>> capacity
>> or desire for a new interchangeable AF lens range myself nor would a
>> cheaper "M" make sense for them. I think the reasoning behind having a
>> cheaper smaller M is flawed in any case.
>> 
>> 
>> *Breathe in, breathe out, move on* -- Jimmy Buffett
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Geoff
>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>> 
>> 
>> On 29 May 2013 00:00, Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> No hints from your dealer, then?  Sad.
>>> 
>>> Dick
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On May 27, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Well I would bet beer against a rebadged Fujifilm camera with an M mount
>>> ;-)
>>>> Guessing is fun. Not long until the 11th. I am going to stay out of the
>>> web
>>>> groups for a few days from then ;-)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> *Breathe in, breathe out, move on* -- Jimmy Buffett
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Geoff
>>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 28 May 2013 13:32, Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Sooooo, Geoff...  anything else you'd care to share with us?   ;-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dick
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On May 27, 2013, at 8:05 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Nope ;-)
>>>>>> On May 28, 2013 10:03 AM, "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin at aol.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> My guess is that the Leica mini m is simply a rebaged and 
>>>>>>> cosmetically
>>>>>>> altered Fuji x, possibly with an M mount. Leica and Fuji have had a
>>> long
>>>>>>> relationship. Remember that the first Leica digitals were Fujis. The
>>>>>>> Digilux was a Fuji MX-700, the Digilux Zoom, a Fuji MX-1700, and the
>>>>> Diglux
>>>>>>> 4.3, a Fuji 4700 Zoom. Back in the film days Leica had a relationship
>>>>> with
>>>>>>> Minolta. The Leica CL was a Minolta product.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> What better, cheaper, and more expedient way to fill a marketing void
>>>>> than
>>>>>>> simply putting your name on someone else's product.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Larry Z
>>>>>>> 
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