Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/25

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Subject: [Leica] Doomed: Leica MP 0.58x
From: sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner)
Date: Tue Jan 25 08:06:50 2005
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Hello Clive:

I agree with some of your thoughts and disagree with others. But this remark 
especially caught my eye:

> In 1967, Leica was building a product that was almost at the end of
> its development life cycle. Very little new in the world of
> rangefinder 35mm came after that time. The cost was astronomical, even
> then. For me, it would have represented 3 used cars, or almost a
> year's rent.

3 used cars or almost a year's rent in 1967? for $400.?
Where were you living?
Seth
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