imants Posted September 26, 2016 Share #1 Â Posted September 26, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) Time will prove me right Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted September 26, 2016 Posted September 26, 2016 Hi imants, Take a look here new leica lens technology heads towards smartphones. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
pop Posted September 26, 2016 Share #2 Â Posted September 26, 2016 Yes, it's clearly visible with the new lenses for the SL. They're just waiting to be built into smartphones. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted September 26, 2016 Share #3 Â Posted September 26, 2016 A Leica representative told me at Photokina that they are working on a smartphone with an M mount. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
prk60091 Posted September 26, 2016 Share #4 Â Posted September 26, 2016 Mock all you want but more people take images with smartphones than with an 'M', and as someone once said you gotta skate to where the puck will be. The future is in mobile and smartphones. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdlaing Posted September 26, 2016 Share #5  Posted September 26, 2016 Are you speaking about the collaboration with Huawei? Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/264939-new-leica-lens-technology-heads-towards-smartphones/?do=findComment&comment=3118994'>More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted September 26, 2016 Share #6 Â Posted September 26, 2016 Ironic in a way that a deal over the latest smartphone still has to be sealed by pen on paper! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted September 26, 2016 Share #7 Â Posted September 26, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) Mock all you want but more people take images with smartphones than with an 'M', and as someone once said you gotta skate to where the puck will be. The future is in mobile and smartphones. You can read this as mocking, but when has this been not true? Insert "Instamatic" or any other "mass consumer" device. I have a growing suspicion that Leica does not cater to the mass market. Never did. Presumably never will. They aim to corner all of 1% of the camera market, or was it 2%? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exodies Posted September 26, 2016 Share #8 Â Posted September 26, 2016 Nonsense. It's just a guess, in which case it's neither right nor wrong whatever the outcome. Or, it's based on facts which you haven't revealed to us so again, you can be neither right nor wrong. I suspect you don't know what "prove" means. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted September 26, 2016 Share #9 Â Posted September 26, 2016 Why am I getting a sense of deja vu? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exodies Posted September 26, 2016 Share #10 Â Posted September 26, 2016 It's time slipping backwards to find out what it had to prove. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted September 26, 2016 Share #11 Â Posted September 26, 2016 Why am I getting a sense of deja vu? I have merged two threads. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
prk60091 Posted September 26, 2016 Share #12  Posted September 26, 2016 You can read this as mocking, but when has this been not true? Insert "Instamatic" or any other "mass consumer" device. I have a growing suspicion that Leica does not cater to the mass market. Never did. Presumably never will. They aim to corner all of 1% of the camera market, or was it 2%?  i do not take this to be a mocking... As I understand it -- a VC firm owns a share of "Leica".... I do not believe any VC firm will be satisfied w/ 1 or 2% of any market.... The 'old' Leica would never have entered into an agreement w/ Huawei or any smartphone manufacturer--- if the english translation of the french interview that i read yesterday is accurate. . . Leica was in negotiations with several smartphone manufacturers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted September 26, 2016 Share #13 Â Posted September 26, 2016 Are you speaking about the collaboration with Huawei? Well... at least now I am SURE of what will be mt next cellphone... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdlaing Posted September 26, 2016 Share #14 Â Posted September 26, 2016 Well... at least now I am SURE of what will be mt next cellphone... Better rethink that choice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted September 26, 2016 Share #15  Posted September 26, 2016 Ironic in a way that a deal over the latest smartphone still has to be sealed by pen on paper!   I guess Dr K.and the other fellow could have sliced their palms with a sharp knife and shook on it but I think putting pen to paper (even if only symbolically) is still the preferred method of concluding a business deal. Although I see where you are coming from I'm not sure what would be more appropriate to a smartphone deal: an exchange of text messages? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted September 26, 2016 Share #16 Â Posted September 26, 2016 I guess Dr K.and the other fellow could have sliced their palms with a sharp knife and shook on it but I think putting pen to paper (even if only symbolically) is still the preferred method of concluding a business deal. Although I see where you are coming from I'm not sure what would be more appropriate to a smartphone deal: an exchange of text messages? Well why not? But I was thinking of an exchange of contract with digital signatures via their phones. There's probably an app for that! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
imants Posted September 26, 2016 Author Share #17  Posted September 26, 2016  Not so much the Huawei as that collaboration is already set and in place discussed   ................... more about http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/andreas-kaufmann-believes-photographic-companies-foot-grave/  Setting up new lenses has to be on Leica's mind most of the m lens technology has run its course for now new avenues abound beyond the SL, Q and T as all that is a bit of same same not much different.  It is all about a smartphone being viewed as camera/video hardware not as a phone  Social Media hardware is where survival exists Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted September 26, 2016 Share #18  Posted September 26, 2016  Not so much the Huawei as that collaboration is already set and in place discussed   ................... more about http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/andreas-kaufmann-believes-photographic-companies-foot-grave/  Setting up new lenses has to be on Leica's mind most of the m lens technology has run its course for now new avenues abound beyond the SL, Q and T as all that is a bit of same same not much different.  Ah, then Leica should make a social media camera. Forget the phone/internet stuff. That can be supported by any second-class phone maker, or none. Ah, a Leica with built-in smart phone, which would be the very smallest part of its structure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
earleygallery Posted September 26, 2016 Share #19  Posted September 26, 2016 Not so much the Huawei as that collaboration is already set and in place discussed ................... more about http://www.mirrorlessrumors.com/andreas-kaufmann-believes-photographic-companies-foot-grave/  Setting up new lenses has to be on Leica's mind most of the m lens technology has run its course for now new avenues abound beyond the SL, Q and T as all that is a bit of same same not much different.  It is all about a smartphone being viewed as camera/video hardware not as a phone  Social Media hardware is where survival exists Hardly new news. Camera sales have declined by a huge amount over recent years and it's the lower end of the market that been hit most.  The prospects are better for higher end and niche equipment- stuff that smartphones can't do basically. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
imants Posted September 26, 2016 Author Share #20  Posted September 26, 2016 I am not referring to camera sales etc  ....it is about what the smartphone ideology can offer.  Niche markets are too small for R&D, partnering with Panasonic and Huawei has given Leica a greater scope just as Zeiss has with Sony etc  You are still viewing things from a camera perspective it is the multimedia/social media hardware that will take the top spot and that is even in the higher end of the market. The camera is a bit playerNikon and  Canon are like the fossil fuel car companies of the past..... no no to electric etc    so will the big white Canon lenses disappear from the sports arena Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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