[LRflex] Leica insolvency temporarily cured.

From The Luminous Landscape:
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There is a news report today from German Television 
(http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/0/0,3672,2364672,00.html) 
that Leica has been saved from insolvency by an investment of Euros 23 Million 
by the luxury goods company Hermes, one of its corporate owners, and the 
Austrian company ACM. This is the second time in as many years that Leica has 
teetered on the brink. Let's hope that the company can accelerate the 
development of its Digital M camera, as this looks to be the one product that 
might save this grand old lady of photography from functional irrelevance in 
today's digital-oriented marketplace.
Now if Leica had the inclination or wherewithal to produce its superb R series 
lenses in fully functional mounts for major DLSR camera systems such as Canon, 
they'd have a new source of revenue as well as enhanced market cache, 
relevance, and distribution channel penetration. Possible? Yes! Likely? Who 
knows?
David Young,
Logan Lake, BC    
CANADA. 

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