Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/17

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Subject: [Leica]New Nikon SP 2005 Limited Edition Introduced
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Mon Jan 17 06:26:14 2005

Geil, OK. As long as it doesn't get schmutzig  :?)

> From: Didier Ludwig <rangefinder@screengang.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:25:41 +0100
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica]New Nikon SP 2005 Limited Edition Introduced
> 
> :-)
> 
> I guess there a some real RF freaks in the Nikon board (any Nikon
> Historical Society lads here to confirm that?) otherwise this camera
> wouldn't exist, probably. Why should successful product managers as those
> from Nikon not have a unrational passion?
> 
> I'm by far not a collector nor could I afford such a camera, but as you use
> the german term "kindergarten", I tell you in german that this kamera is
> just "GEIL!!!" -  I'd love to shoot with it!
> 
> Didier
> 
> 
> 
>> Duh!  Double Duh!
>> 
>> When you make a camera that sells a few 10K units a month, then try a 
>> retro
>> job, tool up a completely new camera, where the entire production run is a
>> few thousand units of a 50 year old camera, using obsolete (film) media,
>> what does any rational manager expect?  A promotion?
>> 
>> This whole retro film camera thing is a Harvard MBA study for
>> kindergarteners.
>> 
>> Frank Filippone
>> red735i@earthlink.net
>> 
>> 
>> It's all new tooling that was made for the S3-2000 reproduction. They
>> took quite a bath on it when the S3 didn't sell as much as they liked.
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