Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/29

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Re: Leica's Development and Management
From: "Roger Beamon" <roger@beamon.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 08:57:16 -700

On 28 Nov 98, AJSymi@aol.com wrote, at least in part:

> Personally, I think the R8 is a very nice camera.  But is it too big?  Too
> great a departure from previous R's?  Remember the new M5?  Why would R
> sales be down so much, unless it is competing with the M system?

Anybody have sales figures for say the F5 and EOS 1n? The EOS 
has been a mature system for some time and I would guess that 
Nikon's initial flurry of F5 activity is now spent. Have they fallen 
as a percentage of what they were before?
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Roger
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