Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tom, I don't know if it is a sign of trouble to be able to take your basic product, paint it in a different colour at an incremental cost of, say, 5% (just guessing here), and then sell it at 35% more. Most companies I know would kill for this kind of customer loyalty. Nathan Thomas Kachadurian wrote: > I hate to be a doomsayer, but this is a sign of a company in trouble. > When a competitor is engineering a camera which will really undercut > their sales, they react to it by making the same camera they have > been making for years and putting a different finish on it. All of > you who talk about Leica as the pinnacle of picture making tools that > can't be improved with updating please explain how it's picture > making abilities are improved by a new paint job? > > Tom > > >They have now officially announced a BLACK PAINT M6 TTL. > > An edition of 2000...for the year 2000 I suppose...will be available this > spring for $2,795 each. < > > Thomas Kachadurian > ------------------- > www.kachadurian.com - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/