[Leica] The Leica R8 - Supply and Demand

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

Isn't it supply and demand??  Since the demand is less for the R8 than say
the EOS-3 or F5 they don't make as many.  With production lower they need to
charge more to be profitable.  If this were made by a company in greater
numbers it would be substantially lower in price.

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mrabiner@concentric.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 11:15 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Buying R8,need advice on lenses conclusion


Alan Ball wrote:
> 
 But the
> price of the R system makes it a non-competing product in an extremely
> competitive high tech market.

The camera cost the same as the top of the line Nikon or Canon's it's
that high faluted macro 100 that blows the price out of the water. Other
lens are competitively priced even if made really by sigma or whoever.
I'd do the same though, give me one great lens and **** the whole system
approach. As Konica used to say in the sixties: The lens alone is worth
the price.
Mark :-) Rabiner