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: lambroving at worldnet.att.net (William G. Lamb, III)
Date: Thu Feb 17 20:23:24 2005

Goodnight, Gracie.

At 08:10 PM 02/17/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>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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