Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I read that the Canon EOS 450d sold 250,000 units per month. No wonder they can be much cheaper... On 30 Oct, 2009, at 23:23, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > Dante, Stefan Daniel said recently that M camera body sales have been > consistent at 10,000 to 12,000 M bodies sold a year since the M6 came > along. You can understand that they won't give away the M8 exact > numbers > except to say that they achieved their goals with the M8/M8.2. > On the M9 initial market reaction it seems that they will be doing > rather > better than that now. The Aussie distributor product manager told me > that > the initial production order has now been increased to 8,000 units. > They > expect it to take months to catch up. > > 2009/10/31 Dante Stella <dstella1 at ameritech.net> > >> How does this compare to the M8? >> >> Dante >> >> On Oct 6, 2009, at 6:31 AM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: >> >> Since its still on topic, pardon another post on this. >>> Figures have just emerged from the Portugal factory (4 October), >>> which >>> fabricates the chassis etc. >>> Initial production was 600 cameras and they have orders for 6,000 >>> cameras. >>> Their daily production iof 50-60 cameras is sold out until January. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Cheers >>> Geoff >>> The new LEICA M9 >>> Passion for perfect pictures. >>> http://www.m.leica-camera.com >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ >>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information