[Leica] what's up with Leica and the lack of lenses?

[photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Phil Forrest)]

Leica's fickle market forecasting is probably akin to forecasting the
efficacy of flu vaccines year by year. Sometimes a hit, sometimes a
very wide miss.

Phil Forrest


On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:01:08 +0000
<vick.ko at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 
> Popular demand, and Leica traditionally only makes items in batches.
> And they don't always get their forecasting right.
> 
> The M9 is driving demand, and prices, up up up again.
> 
> Vick
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> > Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:59:16 -0600
> > From: lists at mcclary.net
> > To: lug at leica-users.org
> > Subject: [Leica] what's up with Leica and the lack of lenses?
> > 
> > I have been looking at B&H, KEH and other on-line retailers and all
> > are out of the 35 summicron, summilux.  All are on back order and
> > have been for a month or more.  Is there a reason Leica is so low
> > on inventory?
> > 
> > Harrison.
> > 
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