Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/15

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Subject: [Leica] for those interested in future Leica developments
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 16:17:18 +1000
References: <CAE3QcF67u1XXZQVFoiqRZs1=PR6YjQJnh+CDb+dkCWtC1E+o7Q@mail.gmail.com> <7F54641D-00AB-4740-BB50-700878AC22E5@ameritech.net>

Save some money for next year when Leica Camera celebrates their 100th, the
60th for the M system and the return to Wetzlar.... I'm just sayin' ;-)


Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 16 November 2013 13:03, Dante Stella <dstella1 at ameritech.net> wrote:

> 600-700 film cameras a year has to make that one of the world's most
> exclusive products!
>
> On Nov 14, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>
> > CEO Alfred Schopf visited Australia recently and provided an interview to
> > Paul Burrows, editor of 'Camera' magazine here. It's a very good local
> > publication and I thoroughly recommend this article (and the magazine) in
> > their Nov/Dec 2013 issue to anyone who can obtain it.
> > You can get it as a digital edition apparently at
> > www.zinio.com/camera
> >
> > I think that I can quote small portions of particular interest here
> without
> > transgression. Perhaps the complete interview will become available?
> >
> > All direct transcriptions from parts of answers by CEO:
> >
> > ..."to be honest, I'm not 100 percent sure where the D-SLR market is
> going
> > to be in the future. The mirrorless cameras are coming on and on and on
> and
> > I'm not entirely convinced that in ten years time we will have a D-SLR
> > market"
> >
> > When asked will there ever be a Leica compact system camera:
> >
> > "We will have one, definitely. And it will, of course, be quite different
> > to M system. We want to have autofocus with such a system and we may well
> > have an APSC size sensor rather than a bigger one......."
> >
> > Getting back to Leica's plans for a CSC, Alfred states:
> > "It will be a German built camera, however I'm not sure we can make all
> of
> > the lenses made in Germany because we are talking about a different price
> > range to M system so I could imagine that we do some fixed focal length
> > lenses in Germany and maybe with the zooms we will co-operate with a
> > partner"
> > He stresses that Leica won't be building on Panasonic's Micro Four Thirds
> > format.
> >
> > On film cameras, Alfred Schopf  said:
> > "We are now the world's biggest manufacturer of film cameras on the
> > planet- because we are the only one, more or less. As long as we get
> orders
> > we will continue. At the moment we get between 600 and 700 orders per
> > year............"
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > Geoff
> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> >
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Replies: Reply from richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] for those interested in future Leica developments)
In reply to: Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] for those interested in future Leica developments)
Message from dstella1 at ameritech.net (Dante Stella) ([Leica] for those interested in future Leica developments)