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 thebuyout
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)
Date: Thu Feb 17 20:06:37 2005
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mak@teleport.com offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] How much does it cost to make an M4-P2 $499? body 
thebuyout


> Great point  and my point exactly
>
> could I live without a meter (yes) without AE (duh) without TTL flash 
> (yes)
>
> If it offered significat cost savings an M4-2 or M4-P would be fine for me 
> for 90% of my photos...
>
> The MP is $2500 because Leica thought they could get $2500 much the same 
> hubris that Apple suffered from...
>
> Leica made money on every one of the 65,000 CLs that Minolta made for 
> them...<

Well let's see now, we have a count of one, yerself! Now you only have to 
round-up probably 42.5 million more buyers to make it work!

Sorry mate I feel yer beating yourself to death on this near dead, dying 
outfit destined to crash and burn!

ted



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