Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not always true Jim. Check out their Einestuck (one piece) and various select models. > ---------- > From: Jim Brick[SMTP:jim@brick.org] > Reply To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Sent: Sunday, February 14, 1999 12:51 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] M6 user/collectible! > > Peter K. wrote: > > > > This is the reason the M is more a collectible than a user > > camera. > > > >> The Ms are nice but in reality little > >> used today by the great majority of photographers. > > > > With this logic, it is difficult to imagine how Leica stays in business. > Collectors and people who don't take pictures typically don't buy new > cameras. The M6 would be history by now if "photographers" didn't buy > them. > As with any camera system, there is a percentage of buyers that, for some > reason or another, never use the equipment. But this cannot be the > majority. There are enough "photographers" buying new M cameras and lenses > to fully support that division of Leica. It would be impossible to design > and produce all of the new M (ASPH and APO) lenses as well as the TTL M6 > without a viable market. The company, Leica AG, would be long gone if > "users" did not buy new equipment. > > The notion that the M is more a collector than a user, or that the M is > little used today, is, fortunately, incorrect. > > Jim >