On 22 Feb 2005 at 19:31, Herb Chong wrote: > they would develop for Leica R if they bought the company. if i were > Panasonic, i would. i am guessing that no matter what happens, Leica will > not exist as a separate company in 2 years. they are selling the Leica R > digital back at $4500 using a Kodak sensor. unless they sell a boatload of > them, > they are going to lose money on the entire development effort. another company > not doing so great is Rollei. it also put its head in the sand like Leica with > respect to digital.
Leica would have been going great guns if they had dumped the R line and put all their R&D into a decent well priced digital M body. But they didn't offer me the CEOs job :-) Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
