Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<snip> > <<<but for Leica to price so many of its fans out of the long-range tele > lens format is absurd!!!>>>>> <snip> In a free market economy the customer determines the price. Or to put it another way, the producer is expected to raise the price of its products or services until the line of consumers outside his front door is down to a manageable length. Or to put it another way, there is generally a tradeoff between time, money and effort. Most products and services are worth more today than they will be tomorrow, or even less ten years in the future. Except for wine, old growth forests and wives. So if the long-range tele lens format is too expensive for you today just wait a few years. What is absurd to one person is obviously just right to others. Otherwise the Leica Camera Company would go out of business. The value of a product or service is subjective. Even though the fundamental morality of Capitalism was best explained by a woman named Ayn Rand who created a philosophy of life called Objectivism. Sorry TM, you hit one of my hot buttons. Dale - -- $ dale-reed@worldnet.att.net Seattle, Washington U.S.A. $