Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<<Does this mean Leica will take orders and then decide whether it will actually produce the lens? The 90 mm Summicron M has been promised for months if not for more than a year and there are very, very few finding their way to the dealers.>> OK Don, Now you have asked the $64,000 question! I hope that this is NOT what they are doing and -in all fairness- (from what I have heard) this is NOT what they did for 90APO's for R8 Motor drives. I would bet that they will only be available in very limited quantities in the begining and possibly for a while. I base this, not on anything I have been told, but on the fact that they are being made "primarily for the Japanese market." As a responsible dealer, here is my offering plan sans prices: I am ordering two of each of these lenses. I am going to take $150 deposits from up to two interested parties on each lens to "place" holds on #1 and #2 of each. IF I don't receive the lenses by the end of September THEN I will give the parties the option of having there monies returned. If I get 'em by then...then we're all a-ok. This plan is only a trial and I guess I will see if it all works out... BTW, I have only received one deposit as of tonight, but about 16 "interested parties." God bless the net. ;-) later, Rich