[Leica] decline in LUG membership

[dorysrus at mindspring.com (Don Dory)]

I remember when the Canon 1v came out and Canon stated that it would
probably be their last professional film camera.  At the time I thought
that was a crazy thing to say: now, four or five years later, I
understand that there is no market for a professional film camera from a
major manufacturer.

Nikon would just be putting more nails in its coffin if they spent any
money on a new film camera.  Leica may survive on 8000 R9's a year but
that wouldn't be a respected week for moving boxes out of Japan.

I truly hope that the F6 will be a MKII killer so that the rivalry
continues to bring us better tools.

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of Henning Wulff
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 12:23 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] decline in LUG membership

At 3:01 PM -0400 8/12/04, B. D. Colen wrote:
>Speaking of upheavals - You can now find 'new in box' Nikon F5s for
>about $1200. What does THAT tell you about the present and future of
>film?

Reasonably reliable sources have an F6 coming shortly. What's that all
about?

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