Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/17

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Lugnuts Name Infringed!!
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 10:26:12 -0500

At 10:33 AM 17-06-98 -0400, you wrote:
>Actually, Arturo, the fact that the LUG bought 50 Contax finders may wake
>Leica up to two facts - some of their pricing is WAY out of line with
>reality (and, by the way, if the Zeiss 35 f 2 autofocus lens can sell retail
>for as little as $400 or less, why is Leica charging more than 3 times that
>for theirs - and don't try to tell me the answer is that the Summicron is 3
>times better. It's not

All this might worry Leica, but only if they have warehouses full of unsold
21mm viewfinders.  Maybe in spite of the buying power of the LUG, Leica is
still selling all the viewfinders that they can.  I really don't know.

Dan C.