scott kirkpatrick Posted December 28, 2006 Share #1 Â Posted December 28, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) From time to time forum posters have commented that the introduction of the M8 will be a business school case study in the future. Well, one privilege of teaching in an engineering program is that I can use what I learn about products I care about in lectures, so I put together a module on the technical and customer/channel relations issues in the M8's introduction. You may enjoy it, and I will be happy to hear any comments, suggestions, omissions, errors, etc. Â Go to my university home page, and down at the bottom of the list of presentations click on the presentation with the above title. Slide #2 explains the reference, from an old classic Robert Sheckley story that I read in grade school. Â enjoy, Â scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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abrewer Posted December 28, 2006 Share #2  Posted December 28, 2006 Interesting lecture Scott.  You can go so many different directions with this:  - small company tackling big tech issues - reliance on partners for critical component quality - inter- and intra-corporate communication - rush to market, cashflow needs, timeliness of introduction  So many different aspects of business in this small case...great choice for your classroom.  Thanks.  Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknorton Posted December 28, 2006 Share #3  Posted December 28, 2006 To which I'd add:  - Extreme shortage of development funding - Simultaneous collapse of traditional market - Residual anti-digital sentiment - Management Churn  As you say, an interesting case study. It's a miracle we are where we are. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted December 28, 2006 Share #4 Â Posted December 28, 2006 I love this image some people have of Leica as a little wooden hut in the forests of Germany with a few old blokes in brown overalls beavering away, scratching their heads and still managing to make a digital camera out of some brass, a few screws and a bit of copper wire. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
egibaud Posted December 28, 2006 Share #5 Â Posted December 28, 2006 maybe you should mention that Mr everybody has no idea of what Leica is!!! Â Try asking around you, it is a funny test and answers are great!! Â - it was Gorbachov's wife name - it was a camera brand from the Eastern block but disapeard with the iron curtain - the first dog that went into space - ... Â Have a great time asking people around. Have fun it is Xmas time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted December 28, 2006 Author Share #6  Posted December 28, 2006 maybe you should mention that Mr everybody has no idea of what Leica is!!! Try asking around you,  - the first dog that went into space - ...  When I've given this lecture, I bring along my M2, with a collapsible 50/2 Summicron and the vulcanite half peeled off. That helps. They can believe it is a 50 year old technology.  scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted December 28, 2006 Author Share #7 Â Posted December 28, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) I love this image some people have of Leica as a little wooden hut in the forests of Germany with a few old blokes in brown overalls beavering away, scratching their heads and still managing to make a digital camera out of some brass, a few screws and a bit of copper wire. Â Don't forget the 21st century bar code technology. Â scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknorton Posted December 28, 2006 Share #8 Â Posted December 28, 2006 I love this image some people have of Leica as a little wooden hut in the forests of Germany with a few old blokes in brown overalls beavering away, scratching their heads and still managing to make a digital camera out of some brass, a few screws and a bit of copper wire. Â No, you're getting confused with the cuckoo-clock department.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley Posted December 28, 2006 Share #9 Â Posted December 28, 2006 I love this image some people have of Leica as a little wooden hut in the forests of Germany with a few old blokes in brown overalls beavering away, scratching their heads and still managing to make a digital camera out of some brass, a few screws and a bit of copper wire. Â thats the Trabant factory Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunom Posted December 28, 2006 Share #10  Posted December 28, 2006 Scott  But doesn't putting in a 21 century roll of film bring it right up to date as a picture making machine ?  Bruno Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted December 28, 2006 Author Share #11  Posted December 28, 2006 Scott But doesn't putting in a 21 century roll of film bring it right up to date as a picture making machine ?  Bruno  If you mean the M2, it's for sure a 21st century camera. I've been using it with new lenses bought for the M8 which is slowly making its way to Israel. The comparison between a 50's Summicron 50/2 and the latest Nokton 50/1.5 is impressive, and I expect the Elmarit 28/2.8 ASPH which I just got to do even better. Just for grins, I think I will throw in a roll of color film that I found (only 10 years out of date), put an IR-cut filter on the 28, and see what the red vignetting on a REAL wide angle looks like.  scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted December 28, 2006 Author Share #12 Â Posted December 28, 2006 Since this is now kinda public, I'd like to put picture credits on the illustrations. Some I remember, but the purple tux lapels and the purple jacket next to a yellow jacket with a purple Bronica (?) lens in the background, I will have to search for. Does anyone remember those pictures and still have links, or the photographers' names in mind? Â thanks, Â scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrewer Posted December 28, 2006 Share #13 Â Posted December 28, 2006 The man with the beard in the "streaking" example is from Brent Nicastro. Â The image with the black luggage on the closet shelf is from Guy Mancuso. Â The others I will have to defer to someone else here. Â Thanks. Â Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted December 28, 2006 Author Share #14  Posted December 28, 2006 The man with the beard in the "streaking" example is from Brent Nicastro.  Thanks.  Actually, the man with the beard is a friend of Roberto P Ottavi, editor of the Italian magazine Leica Passione. He published those with .dng files very early, and then withdrew them at Leica's request. But not before several of us had downloaded them. I assume he took them, but is that incorrect?  I'm still stuck on the other two. I spent an interesting hour reading the old pages from November, but threads are saved according to their last entry, so a popular thread can end up anywhere in the archives.  scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted December 29, 2006 Share #15  Posted December 29, 2006 The man with the beard in the "streaking" example is from Brent Nicastro. The image with the black luggage on the closet shelf is from Guy Mancuso.  The others I will have to defer to someone else here.  Thanks.  Allan  Yea i am the luggage guy. LOL  What a way to be remembered:D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrewer Posted December 29, 2006 Share #16  Posted December 29, 2006 Thanks. Actually, the man with the beard is a friend of Roberto P Ottavi, editor of the Italian magazine Leica Passione. He published those with .dng files very early, and then withdrew them at Leica's request. But not before several of us had downloaded them. I assume he took them, but is that incorrect?  scott  Scott, I'll retract my information then...I had this vague remembrance of the photo and Brent but it may have been simply that he only commented on the image.  Sorry if I muddied the water there.  Thanks.  Allan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted December 29, 2006 Author Share #17 Â Posted December 29, 2006 Yeah, i am the luggage guy. LOL Â What a way to be remembered:D Â I prefer to remember your sidewalks with green tinges at 21mm, and the tasty look of your Yosemite martinis. Â scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted December 29, 2006 Share #18 Â Posted December 29, 2006 The martinis sound better too me. LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted December 29, 2006 Share #19 Â Posted December 29, 2006 ...Does anyone remember those pictures and still have links, or the photographers' names in mind?... No name or link sorry. http://tinyurl.com/rv7w/M8_IRpics.zip Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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