Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:20 AM 3/2/99 -0800, you wrote: >Yes, but priced at the horrid sum of $5,395 (at Wall St. Camera), I'd pay >Leica >to inspect their sales figures and determine how few of same they have sold, >for they have excluded a large base of lens purchasers with that gouging. >Nikon >and Canon must be laughing all the way to the bank as they sell zoom after >zoom >after zoom at a fracture of that cost while the 70-180 Varios collect dust on >dealers shelves! That is certainly a boatload of speculation. I think it's probably selling very well. There are several in the hands of LUG members, and have been for some time. It's not that much. You can get it for under $4,000 with a rebate. That still sounds like a lot. I got mine for $3,000. Canon is most likely crying on the design tables as they wonder how they can match this one. Nikon, they have a new lens. It will be interesting to see if they can come close optically. If numbers were that important in the big scheme of things, then point and shoot cameras are the only ones to buy, they're under $300 for the most part, and more people buy them than all the SLRS of all the lines that exist, and then double that, maybe a couple of times. At the end of the day, how much would one be willing to pay for a zoom lens that's as good as the 100 Apo macro? Well, there's one right here, today. This lens is it. As long as you have a penchant for carrying very heavy lenses. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.