[HUG] SV: Re: SV: Re: SV: Re: Newsletter from CEO of Haselblad....

Jim,

Leica had no position on the norwegian market to speak of before desilusioned 
german soldiers traded them for a kilo of butter before going home in 1945.  
Since then the price has only gone up....  

I bought the M8 only to do my share so this tiny european camera producer might 
survive.  But they are far from survival.  The irony just might be that 'the 
low US dollar' will kill what is left of 'Leica as we know it'.  The brand will 
survive as some red dot on shiny digital boxes with 'guts made in China'.  But 
a red light is burning for the Solms factory and the Leica M-system's survival.

But the M8 is better than it's reputation.  Mine has worked flawlessly.  Since 
April.  I am an amateur.  It does not matter much if certain fabrics look 
purple in low light.  The filers do help, though.  Then it is a light and 
compact camera with a picture potential close to the Canon 1Ds II.

But will Leica - as we know it, survive?  That's is the question.

Tom of Oslo



> From: Jim Brick [jim@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 2007-10-25 19:01:35 CEST
> To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [HUG] Re: SV: Re: SV: Re: Newsletter from CEO of Haselblad....
> 
> At 09:57 AM 10/25/2007 +0200, Tom Just Olsen wrote:
> >Joanne,
> >
> >Down there, down and under, your currency is so strong that you 
> >could easily buy two M8's and keep one as a paperweight.  I bought a 
> >M8 in Singapore back in April.
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> 
> 
> Tom... Happy to see that you are propping-up that disastrous company, 
> Leica... and that you decided to personally own a technical flop...  :-)  Jim
> 
> 
> 
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> Except for being a technical flop it is now pretty evident that the 
> M8 is a commercial distaster for Leica.  Instead of generating income 
> it is now draining the small Leica organisation for 
> recources.  Further; Leica has been bought up and is no longer a 
> public company.  The buyers are the austrian Hofman family with 
> rather limited resources to put into Leica.
> 
> Tom of Oslo
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