Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/06

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Waiting more than a year for the new R 35-70/2.8 ASPH
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 11:23:18 -0000

And you thought "vapor ware" was only produced by the computer industry..
;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Pascal
> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 3:32 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] Waiting more than a year for the new R 35-70/2.8 ASPH
>
>
> At Photokina 98 (remember?) the new Vario-Elmarit-R 35-70/2.8
> ASPH was
> presented. Deliveries were promised for early Spring 99.
>
> Meanwhile, there were several manufacturing problems that I
> explained in
> an earlier posting to this group, which made the delivery
> date slip back
> to after the Summer.
>
> Now, after an enquiry with one of the two largest German
> Leica dealers,
> it appears that one would have to wait for another year to actually
> acquire one of these babies, if an order was placed now. He
> gets one of
> them every 6 weeks, and there is already a long waiting list !!!
>
> No wonder Leica is in dire financial straits :-(
>
> Pascal
> NO ARCHIVE
>
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