Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/13

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Subject: [Leica] Re: RF / SLR
From: lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth)
Date: Sat Jan 13 01:37:38 2007

Why shouldn't I look at it from my narrow point of view? It's _my_ money
that's buying the thing.

Steve


On 13/1/07 02:22, "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that you miss the point that there are not many of that species
> around, at least, not enough to fill Leica's coffers. Even Tina and 
> Harrison
> agree that they would use a M8 in addition to their SLRs, and not replace
> them. Stop looking at it from your narrow point of view, and look at it 
> from
> Leica's point of view. Selling a couple of dozen M8 cameras to members of
> this list will not make much difference in their fortunes. They have to go
> for a broader market, and hence the strategy to make this an iconic,
> fashionable buy. They really have no choice at the price point the M8 is at
> and have to get at least one good year of sales out of the M8 to shore up
> their net worth for the future.  All of us buy so much of our Leica gear
> second hand, that I think that is the only route to take to entice new
> buyers. Buying second hand is good for us, but bad for Leica. My guess is
> that, barring a miracle,  Leica will inevitably end up in a few years as
> third party lens manufacturers - rather as Zeiss is doing now, or some
> Japanese giant will take them over.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
> 
> On 1/13/07, Steve Unsworth <lug@steveunsworth.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you for saying that George, it's a point many people seem to miss.
>> 
>> Steve
>> 



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