Re: [Leica] Leica and digital photography

["Christopher Williams" <LeicaChris@worldnet.att.net>]

That's the whole problem with camera companies today. The reps are gone and
the companies could care less what the small camera stores sell or suggest.
The consumer goes or orders from the big electronic or 2 story camera stores
and buys the new and latest digital camera because these stores have it for
less than the local camer store. Consumers complain that the local store
sells it for 50 bucks more. No shit! The small local store can only afford 3
or 4 cameras when the big camera stores buy 150, so the smaller stores have
to sell it for more in order to make some kind of profit. And the profit is
usually very, very small.

Used to be you saw the Nikon, Canon, Olympus, Pentax, etc reps at least
twice a month. Now you're lucky to see one rep every other month unless you
are a big store. Canon does not even want to deal with small companies
anymore. Nikon makes small stores purchase at least $6000 in equipment every
so often just so one can still sell the Pro gear. Then the orders come in
one camera or lens at a time and half the stuff is on backorder.

Now this consumer who spends his money ordering a digital camera and all the
stupid accessories now comes walking into his or her local camera store and
now wants to know how to work the damn thing. Haha, fool. Didn't know this
new digital stuff was gonna be so much $$ huh?

News flash also, there are going to now be one-time use Compact Flash and
Smart Media cards so the consumers can keep buying cards. 64mb cards will
soon cost 10-17 dollars and can be used only once like a roll of film. Mo'
money, mo' money.

Chris Williams
Bitchin in New Orleans



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From: "tm" To: "Leica Users Group"Subject: [Leica] Leica and digital
photography


> This morning I was at the counter of the camera store I give my slide film
> to for processing when a man walked in with a simple digital camera and
> asked the owner, Mike, "How can I get prints from this camera? I just
> returned from Europe and got 800 shots". Mike, shocked, told him, "Digital
> prints are $0.60 apiece." The man said, "WHAT? That's $480.00". Mike said,
> "Yes. Why didn't you instead shoot with a film camera? The cost would have
> been far less per exposure." The man said, "I bought this digital camera
at
> Costco and they didn't explain anything to me about its nature." Needless
to
> say, the man is horribly mad and frustrated. Mike showed him an incredible
> Provia slide I shot with my R8 and 180 f/2.8 APO lens and the man said, "I
> feel like I've been ripped off."
>
> This, in my opinion, shows one result of the camera manufacturers seducing
> the American public with full-page newspaper and magazine ads pushing
> digital cameras rather than rangefinders and SLRs.

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