Leica revivals

The extent of my knowledge of Leica's is pretty limited, and even less in terms of what I own/use gear-wise, but they certainly haven't stayed in business all these years by guessing wrong on trends and keeping pace with their demographic's demands and future needs. In this case they're using the same logic that has proven to be a winner in other industries, and they can do it with minimal investments to boot. Fresh model designs take a lot of time and R&D money to produce, but reintroducing a proven and popular model makes a lot of sense when they're able to be the first one back into a market that everyone else has left. a bit of updating with reintroduced models is common place too, and I suspect there will be more to come.

This is exactly the bread and butter logic of Gibson Guitars' Vintage Reissues, and the same from their rival Fender Guitars, and where Fender's even going one step further with amplifier reissues. There are other guitar makers doing it as as well, and they've all done this for decades. Not really a new concept... just a different product category.

I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see this very same type of reissue news popping up from several makers. It's unfortunate that Kyocera got greedy and lopped off the whole Yashica camera line and the recognized name that goes with it. A Kyocera FX-4 may be a nice camera if one were made, but it lacks the heritage and cache of it's earlier siblings and the reputation they once had.