[Leica] M8's in Hong Kong

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Hi Howard,

Nice to hear from you in HK. Give my best to Bryan,
whose recent absence from BALUG has been noted with
regret, and to Mr. Chin, who sold me my first M6
(titanium) and thus has a place of special honor among
Leica dealers (and easily among most congenial and
customer-friendly of the ones I've met).

Can you report whether there are any early M8 adopters
among the HK LUG?  

rgds
Peter.
SF, CA

--- Howard Cummer <cummer@netvigator.com> wrote:

> 
> On 19 Nov 2006, at 11:07 AM,
> lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:
> 
> > Message: 20
> > Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:34:01 +1100
> > From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
> >
> > And to you and Esther, have you got an M8 yet ;-)
> >
> 
> Hi Alastair,
> Bryan Caldwell (who is visiting from California) and
> I visited Mr.  
> Chin at New Cameron Photo on Friday and asked about
> the availability  
> of the M 8. Mr. Chin had sold 3 pieces to Chinese
> customers for HK 
> $38,000 (US$4,885) - two of which had been returned
> - and Mr. Chin  
> suggested I wait until the issues about the M8 are
> resolved and the  
> Hong Kong price stabilizes. He couldn't give an
> exact price but  
> didn't deny my guesstimate of HK$33,000 (US$4,242)
> as being near what  
> the M8 will sell for in Hong Kong when available in
> quantities. So, I  
> will wait for awhile. Talking about the M8 magenta
> issue Bryan and I  
> went through all 340 pictures that I have shot with
> the two M8's that  
> I have been able to use in Vancouver and Wetzlar and
> we found two  
> pictures where black had a brownish red cast. I had
> not noticed it  
> before because, of course, I wasn't looking for it.
> Cheers
> Howard (in Hong Kong - where the weather is turning
> cooler and would  
> be perfect except for the air pollution) :-(
> 
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