Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh I see the numbers are consecutive. I thought they just picked a number arbitrarily every time they made a camera! Rabs -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography > From: Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 06:27:43 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Selling like Hotcakes....? > > I really liked the comparison to the Rebel volume..... > > Another way to look at this data is to track Serial Numbers by model year. > It is very crude but will give you a fair assessment for this purpose.. > The M6 started around 1.6M and ended around 3M. About 1.4M Serial > numbers.... > There were really only a few R cameras ( compared to M) made during the > same > time. Most of the cameras made were M6 ( of 1 or another version...) > Taking half... 700K cameras is a fair guesstimate....even dividing that by > half gives 350K M6 cameras made.... > > The M6 sold a LOT more cameras than the M3... > > If you want real hard data, Erwin published a list of the M serial numbers, > including the M6 in some detail....you could add it up.. > > Frank Filippone > Red735i at earthlink.net > > > Leitz used to publish their production quantities but Leica Camera does > not. > Pre Solms there are the following:- Leitz M6 about 30,000 (production > continued by Leica Camera) M4P 22,444 > M4-2 16,100 (+100 gold plated...) > M5 33,900 > M4 59,000 > M2 85,000 > MP 449 > M3 226,178 > > Interestingly the M3 sold about as much as the rest put together - so much > for the myth that the M2 viewfinder was preferred, it carried over because > it was -much- cheaper to make... > To put these figures into perspective Canon sell about 250,000 digital > rebel > SLRs per month. > FWIW, > Frank > > ore information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information