Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/30

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Subject: [Leica] Yasahura and New Nikon S3/SP?
From: Mike Dembinski <mdembin@it.com.pl>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:19:29 +0100

Alex Brattell wrote:.

> I recently received this e-mail:
>
> >Thank you for your mail.
> >
> >Sorry to say, we are now too busy to release our first product successfully.
> >After we showed the picture of T981 in our web page,
> >not only the consumers but also magazine writers and the press are rushing to
> >T981.
> >Straightly to say, it is making a panic in Japanese camera market.
> >The demand from Japanese market is too large.
> >So we are now changing the production system to supply more.
> >
> >We think we can release the first lot at the end of next February in the
> Japanese
> >market.
> >We will try to start to supply T981 to the oversea countries as soon as
> possible.
> >
> >Please not to be hasty.
> >
> >--
> >------------------------------------------
> >Shin Yasuhara
> >4-5-11-104 Setagaya-ku Tokyo 154 Japan
> >Tel(+81)3-3487-0325
> >Fax(+81)3-3487-0418
> >mailto:yasuhara@ac.mbn.or.jp

If this be the case - what is Nikon waiting for ? Surely they could make a similar
furore with a revamped S3/SP. And look at the price Yasuhara has been been asking
for - much less than for an M6.

Mike