Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:23 PM 2/19/97 +0100, you wrote: > Stephen Gandy wrote > > The pricing is a moral crime. The normal M6 price is bad enough, but > > the M6J prices > > amount to a crime against humanity---or at least against Leica > > photographers. > >You have to take into account that they developed a new lens for the M6J, >which might not be done for nothing. The 2.8/50 is a new development, >optically as well as mechanically. > >christoph > Yes, indeed, but Leica is selling the lens to everyone, not limiting it to an M6J set. So I assume that we should charge off its development costs to general R&D, not to the cost of developing the M6J.--Charlie Charles E. Love, Jr. CEL14@CORNELL.EDU