Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Were Leicas always so expensive?
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 18:09:52 +0100

Nope - I remember that the photographer Lucien Aigner said in some
interview that in the thirties the richer news agencies could afford
Contaxes, the not so well off had Leicas.=20
Raimo
photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen
my=F6s suomeksi

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> From: AJSymi@aol.com
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Were Leicas always so expensive?
> Date: 07. lokakuuta 1998 1:43
>=20
> Mark wrote:
>=20
> << Would LUGgers me ______more interested, or _________less intereste=
d if
Mr.
>  Yasuhara was asking $1900 for his new camera instead of somewhere ar=
ound
>  $400? >>
> --------------------------------
> Mark:
> Mr. Yasuhara hasn't offered anyone his new camera at $400 (or any oth=
er
> price).  It's just talk.  So what's the point??  Although I would be
> interested in knowing if Leica has always been the expensive alternat=
ive.
>=20
> Arturo