Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/05

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Subject: [Leica] BESSA R3A or M7
From: jefferys at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Wed Jan 5 16:48:10 2005
References: <BAY101-F2549601D467578DFD11982AB920@phx.gbl>

I wonder what the delay is. Mr. K. has said in an interview that he
goes from concept to finished product in about a month. I admit that
this would be a very fast turnaround time, but 8 months seems rather
long.


On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:37:09 -0500, Bill Marshall <billgem@hotmail.com> 
wrote:
> Jeffrey, regarding the suggested retail price, Sam Shoshan has posted on 
> his
> classicconnection.com website a price of $1617 for the ZI body. About a
> month ago, Hasselblad told me that they had released a price list for body 
> &
> lenses to their dealers in late November. Sam's price list appeared on his
> website at about that same time. Since he is an authorized Hasselblad
> dealer, I assume that he has posted the official price.
> 
> I hope that B&H will come up with some grey market imports at a lower 
> price.
> Stephen has suggested that the price will rise with the falling dollar. 
> It's
> a long time until scheduled release in May. In the mean time, Leica prices
> have increased 5-10%, so it will have to go some to get into that
> stratosphere.
> 
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