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Subject: [Leica] S2 success (or lack thereof)
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:02:10 +0100
References: <C93492DB.80DC%mark@rabinergroup.com>

You can take pictures with it - probably only at home 
because you can no longer afford to take it anywhere.

Douglas

On 20.12.2010 10:58, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> What does it do?
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> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> mark at rabinergroup.com
> Cars:   http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb
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>
>
>
>> From: "Henning J. Wulff"<henningw at archiphoto.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:27 -0800
>> To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] S2 success (or lack thereof)
>>
>> The M9 Titanium is quite a different camera than the various previous
>> M6 blue skinned and engraved 'specials' and cameras of similar style.
>> The M9Ti has a lot of features that are different and experimental in
>> the sense that Leica AG want to see what the response is. It's a
>> concept camera rather than a special, and as such the factory has
>> different expectations from its sale and responses than the specials.
>> The specials are completely outside the sphere of interest and
>> concern of actual photographers, and are intended for well heeled
>> collectors only. The Ti is a probe for directions the M series should
>> take for future developments. The current Ti series might be for
>> collectors in the end, but their response is important.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Lets not just forget that the S2 is not a limited edition camera designed
>>> for rich collectors like the M9 Titanium or other bon bons of the same 
>>> ilk
>>> which are unfortunate money makers of a low order for the company to 
>>> survive
>>> and expected of them. Both cameras really don't belong on the same page 
>>> or
>>> in the same discussion.
>>> The S2 is very much a working camera. They will not exist in collectors
>>> glass cases.
>>> They are not precious.
>>>
>>>
>>> "He wants the precious. Always he is looking for it. And the precious is
>>> wanting to go back to him... But we mustn't let him have it."
>>>
>>> Myyy PRECIOUSSS.
>>> --------------------
>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>> Photography
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>>> mark at rabinergroup.com
>>> Cars:   http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>   From: John McMaster<john at chiaroscuro.co.nz>
>>>>   Reply-To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org>
>>>>   Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:05:02 +1300
>>>>   To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org>
>>>>   Subject: Re: [Leica] S2 success (or lack thereof)
>>>>
>>>>   My dealer got one for a client, he then heard that a second one was 
>>>> coming
>>>>   to NZ (unassigned) so took it for himself. Doesn't sound like what 
>>>> would
>>>>   happen if all 500 were sold - it surprised me....
>>>>
>>>>   john
>>>>
>>>>>   -----Original Message-----
>>>>>   Seeing that they sold off the 500 Leica M9Ti without even trying in a
>>>>>   matter of weeks,
>>>>
>> -- 
>>
>>         Henning J. Wulff
>>    Wulff Photography&  Design
>> mailto:henningw at archiphoto.com
>>     http://www.archiphoto.com
>>
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