Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/31

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Subject: [Leica] M9 production
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:18:51 +0000
References: <36172e5a0910060331r1c362448ya73cde5197f41d4b@mail.gmail.com> <483A328A-EA04-4907-824B-C995CB23388B@ameritech.net> <36172e5a0910301623h6c0832bcue510440e0248e975@mail.gmail.com> <018201ca59ba$6fd660b0$4f832210$@net>

I don't think it is grim, I think it is optimistic for the future.
FD

On 30 Oct, 2009, at 23:41, Frank Filippone wrote:

> 50 a day divided into 6000 cameras is 120 WORKING days.... which is  
> close to
> 5 calendar months ( holidays, EU work regulations, etc.)  .  Order  
> today for
> delivery in March......
>
> 8000 is another 2K units, or another 40 working days... or 2 more  
> calendar
> months.... May.
>
> I would say they would not want this data to be well known..... it  
> is pretty
> grim.
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i at earthlink.net
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>>> 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.
>>>
>
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] M9 production)
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