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Subject: [Leica] Leica Monochrome
From: alal at poly.edu (Akhil Lal)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 22:23:43 -0400
References: <CA+yJO1AmY0tfEMz8NL_p-nJFog5AWUTTVp+-KwYjn9L_zEEQRw@mail.gmail.com> <CBD18E17.1417C%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

Hi Chris,

Leica will only make a few thousands, at most tens of thousands a year of
any item. Believe it or not there are more than enough people out there to
buy every lens they can make, and for many years to come. In this age we
need to look at the  global not local picture. There must be hundreds of
thousands of millionaires in Asia alone now.  Remember the balance of wealth
is shifting East, and China is Leica's largest market. If expensive goods do
not sell in a part of the world experiencing recession and/or economic
decline, they will surely sell in booming economies. It has always been thus
and will continue to be so in the future.

It is shameful that matters have got to this point, but as recent economic
and social policies have shown the 7 buck an hour wage earners no longer
matter, and not just in respect of camera sales.

Regards,
Akhil

   

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+alal=poly.edu at leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+alal=poly.edu at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Chris
Crawford
Sent: 10 May 2012 15:28
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Monochrome

This thing is so far outside the realm of even remote possibility for me
that I frankly don't give a damn. What is Leica going to do when all the old
people who have money because they began working before the $7 an hour
economy was foisted upon their children have died, leaving the impoverished
young who simply cannot even consider such equipment, no matter how good it
is.

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