Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/20

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Unbelievable
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Sat Dec 20 23:17:45 2008
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My opinion is that the market is so small for a digi-rangefinder that  
none will ever fly off the shelves. If the sales had been good enough  
to pay for the development of the camera and a bit of profit the  
service would have been good and there would have been RD2 and RD3 by  
now. Cosina/Voigtlander would have continued if Epson did not.
IMO the opinion that the M8 is overpriced profiteering is mistaken. At  
the market size for such a product the volume they produce will always  
be tiny and the tooling and R&D costs have to be amortised over a few  
units. It could well be a loss leader to sell more lenses :-)
Frank


On 20 Dec, 2008, at 23:32, Richard Man wrote:

> The alignment problem is exaggerated. It was very easy to fix by  
> oneself. If
> they price is at $1500 to $2000, it may have flown off the shelves.
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Harrison McClary  
> <lists@mcclary.net> wrote:
>
>> If it had not had all the problems I read about then I'd have  
>> gotten one.
>> But the stories about poor rangefinder alignment, and things like  
>> that kept
>> me away...also it was not exactly in the category I was taking  
>> about, if I
>> remember it was around 3 grand new.  They are still 1500 used or  
>> so...I'd
>> rather save a few more pennies and get a used M8 with all I have  
>> hear about
>> the RD1.  Now had the RD1 been a decent camera with good customer
>> support...that'd have made a difference to me.
>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com
> // b: http://richardfman.wordpress.com
>
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