Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/07

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Subject: RE: [Leica] your opinion about G2
From: "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:46:34 -0800

One comment about price.  If you look at the numbers, Leica does not sell as
much equipment (cameras and lenses) as say Nikon or Canon.  Hence, there is
not a way to get the economies of scale that many others do.  On the other
hand, perhaps the "slow to build" quality in Leica lenses offers something
since the real reason one owns a Leica is the lens not the camera. After
all, you don't ever hear someone requesting to put a Tamron or Sigma lens on
a Leica body, even the R bodies.

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net]
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 1998 11:08 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] your opinion about G2


Alan - Thanks for an instructive post on the innards of the G lenses. I
agree with you about the inability to manually focus, pre-focus, etc. I
still believe, however, that while it may not be possible to produce Leica
quality lenses at G prices, it must be possible to hit a price point between
the two....
:-)
B. D.