Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks. I am hoping that I will be able to afford the M11 or whatever it will be called. I vote for 100% accurate framelines. On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>wrote: > Nothing in that article! Photokina should be interesting. I would bet money > on some sort of commemorative products for 2014 though! If so that will > annoy the web Leica-istas who will be outraged at such frivolity instead of > (insert desired "serious" camera spec here). > Of course I've lost beer here before betting on some future Leica > development, what would I know? > > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 16 November 2013 17:07, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > wrote: > > > M 241 :-) > > > > BTW, any indication the future of the M system? > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at > > gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Leica Users Group. > > > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Leica Users Group. > > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto