Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/17

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Subject: [Leica] How much does it cost to make an M4-P2 $499? body the buyout
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Thu Feb 17 18:30:59 2005
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and then they made the CLE (wonderful little camera) and dumped it, so 
all the CLE people came back to Leica ;-)

On 18/02/2005, at 12:42 PM, John Collier wrote:

> Not as much as they would have made on M5 sales that went to the CL. 
> One could argue that the CL killed the M5. The real winner was 
> Minolta. They made more money on each CL sold and they gain invaluable 
> prestige.
>
> John Collier
>
> On 17-Feb-05, at 6:21 PM, mak@teleport.com wrote:
>
>> Leica made money on every one of the 65,000 CLs that Minolta made for 
>> them...
>
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Alastair
In reply to: Message from mak at teleport.com (mak@teleport.com) ([Leica] How much does it cost to make an M4-P2 $499? body the buyout)
Message from jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier) ([Leica] How much does it cost to make an M4-P2 $499? body the buyout)