[Leica] What are the rumours around Leica and Photokina? WAS : Leica annual report

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

But George The S2 is already there to compete against those options. You can
see that the lenses are only slowly trickling to the market.
On those (13 month old) Euro prices the R10 projected retail for a body
would have been USD7900 to USD9200 (just as direct currency conversion
today).
Then of course it needs to have a new AF lens range. The dedicated R lens
owners very likely would buy one even so but you guys are a smaller sub-set
of the (too small) possible market as Stefan has said.
 But never mind, I only just report what Leica Camera has said. I was 15 ft
from Herr Daniel when he said it to probably a couple of hundred Leica
enthusiasts and I saw the jaws drop ;-)
Courtesy of Andreas who runs the L Camera Forum,  here again is the official
translation and a link to the original German as well.
<
http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/customer-forum/89591-summary-q-session-stefan-daniel-during.html
>

Let's hope then for all of the R folks that they have changed their mind and
the numbers have changed too.  They've made some more money since then ;-)
Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


On 5 August 2010 01:33, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote:

> And if they would now present
> in the wake of the M9 success
> and the high end S2 option
> a $6,000 24x36 DSLR
> with the new, polished "FINE" Leica brand;
> it would certainly "have a reasonable chance."
>
> I'm looking at $5 - $14K options
> from PhaseOne, Hasselblad, Leaf
> every day.
>
> I have to believe others are as well.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 3, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>
> > In  his R10 cancellation announcement, Stefan Daniel told us that it
> would
> > have had to sell for 6000 to 7000 EURO.
> > For comparison an M9 list in Europe is 5495 EURO
> > Cheers
> > Geoff
> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> >
> >
> > On 4 August 2010 06:31, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >> yep - that's all we're look'n' for
> >> keep it simple
> >>
> >> ;~)
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> George Lottermoser
> >> george at imagist.com
> >> http://www.imagist.com
> >> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> >>
> >>
> >> On Aug 3, 2010, at 3:23 PM, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> as long as it was full frame and had a bright view finder.
> >>
> >>
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