Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>The special editions are a separate >issue. Their existence doesn't mean Leica has given up on users. > >-Charlie > Consider that Leica has been producing these LTD ED items not for collectors but for the participants of events like weddings, members of clubs and societies, govts, etc. What better way to plant yourself deep into the carriage set than to build these LTD ED bodies. I would suppose that the royal wedding bodies are purchased for gifts to the members of the wedding parties. It could be that Leica builds a slew of em, sells most of them to whomever placed the order at a price less than that at which they appear on the collector mkt, and then with the overrage they mark them up and lay them on the glass cabinet crowd. I also would imagine that the wedding party folks become buyers of lenses, Leica bags, ball heads, and anything with the BRD (big red dot) on it. It is conceivable that there is a Leica rep on hand to take orders from the tuxedo and taffeta clad guests, for ASPH lenses and extended waranties in the lobby outside the receptions. At my wedding we gave all of our guests a $20.00 crystal candle holder. None of them complained, but had we given away M6s with our likeness (or would it be Leicaness) engraved on the top, we would have been immediately impovershed. Life is just not fair. Regards, Ben W. Holmes Boulder, CO Visit my web site at http://www.frii.com/~bholmes/ Leica serial numbers at http://www.frii.com/~bholmes/photodat.htm