Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:47 13.04.1998 +0200, Erwin Puts wrote: >The most obvious argument for Leica's high cost production of lenses is >quite simple: volume and not necessarily better QC. > Now a Leica generation will hold less than ten years. From what I heard, the company's income results from the lenses and not from the bodies. That's the reason, the bodies are "relatively" less expensive, and the lens prizes pretty high. Would you, please, comment the second statement. Is it becasue they break, or becuase speed has increased in new developments ? Alf - -------------------------------------------------- Alfred Breull http://members.aol.com/abreull/index.htm http://members.aol.com/mfformat/c-mf.htm