Rob Studdert wrote:
I see it that way too. It kind of makes you wonder how these guys get picked. I've worked for too manyOn 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 :-)
companies where everyone, except top management, knew the light at the end of the tunnel was the on coming train.
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
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