Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill and other LUGs, Great Story. Keep up the good work. Imagine what would happen to the prices of IIIfs, the current PC (perfectly-correct) Leica. Their prices, which are already in the stratosphere, would be much higher than those of the M5, the ugly duckling. The M3s are already unaffordable, in spite of the fact that there were more than 220,000 built. Best of Light, Chris At 09:43 PM 12/30/96 -0600, you wrote: >At 05:26 PM 12/30/96 -0500, you wrote: >>At 09:55 AM 12/30/96 -0700, you wrote: >>>Someone used the phrase "The Leica of..." when extolling the virtues of >>>something he felt was a world class item. It's funny how these cameras have >>>become iconic to us in that we hold them up as a standard of quality. >>> >>Sadly, I don't think "The Leica of...." will work with the public at large. >>I have used Leicas in many public settings, and virtually every >>non-photographer I've talked with has never heard the name. > >This reminds me of an incident that happened to me a few years ago while on >vacation in Portugal. A fellow American tourist walked up to me and >mispronounced Leica three times and then said he had never heard of a camera >by that name. I looked at his camera, it was a Focal from K Mart. I said >to him that is a K Mart camera isn't it? He answered yes, so I told him my >Leica was a Walmart brand and then I never bothered to tell him the difference. > >Bill Grimwood > > >