Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 20/2/01 2:14 AM, Paul Bolam at Paul@bolam67.freeserve.co.uk wrote: > Seeing the supply of this lens is rarer than rockinghorse shit due to > cost or difficulty of manufacture, why do Leica continue to advertise it in > 'The Program'? > > It's very mis-leading for new-comers to the R system. Maybe, they should > either remove it from the brochure or mention that it is "by special order > only". > Cheers, > Paul. Hi Paul, They won't even entertain 'by special order' only! It is most ironic that I am the one who has been working so hard to promote their R series locally. I manage to sell far more R8s than the official Leica agent here, by ten times as much. Now that there are thousands of R8 cameras around, there are not enough R lenses to go with them, I mean the ones that people really want. I have had customers who bought into the R system because they thought they could buy a fast standard zoom lens, just like they did with Canon and Nikon. I would have thought Leica had learned a lesson after the R8 Motor Drive fiasco. They should just swallow their pride and pass on the VE 35-70/2.8 ASPH. design to Kyocera and let the latter take care of everything. The latest I heard from Leica that the VE 35-70/2.8 ASPH. replacement will be at least two years away. Let's hope the R series will still be around then.... Cheers, Joseph