Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I would love a black SP. Mine is chrome and still works as well as ever - I just hauled it out - though I haven't had a film in it in years. It is not a patch on a M Leica to use. I expect they are valuable by virtue of rarity. I believe there were 100 M3s made for every SP and, since the Nikon's probably did not have the same perceived value as Leicas, many battered ones got thrown away. "Real" black SPs are very expensive. Frank On 17 Jan, 2005, at 14:25, Didier Ludwig wrote: > :-) > > 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. > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >