Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nope - I remember that the photographer Lucien Aigner said in some interview that in the thirties the richer news agencies could afford Contaxes, the not so well off had Leicas.=20 Raimo photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen my=F6s suomeksi - ---------- > From: AJSymi@aol.com > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Were Leicas always so expensive? > Date: 07. lokakuuta 1998 1:43 >=20 > Mark wrote: >=20 > << Would LUGgers me ______more interested, or _________less intereste= d if Mr. > Yasuhara was asking $1900 for his new camera instead of somewhere ar= ound > $400? >> > -------------------------------- > Mark: > Mr. Yasuhara hasn't offered anyone his new camera at $400 (or any oth= er > price). It's just talk. So what's the point?? Although I would be > interested in knowing if Leica has always been the expensive alternat= ive. >=20 > Arturo