Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 4/3/01 10:28 AM, Rolf Katzenstein at rgk@farmington.com wrote: > The abuse heaped on John Collier for his benign comment.... Yes, it was a benign and naïve comment, but since I have been somewhat affected by his remark, I think he deserved all the abuse he received! ;-) > It is easy to visualize some participants discovering a rare and historically > significant Leica at a widows's garage sale and buying it for $25.00 and > feeling great about it. I don't recall the seller asking $25 for the lens. His asking price of C$5,500 was not excessively low, wouldn't you think? It was already more than the regular retail price. > The lens in question is not important in the historical sense. Its primary > value is to prove the continuing inepitude of Leica and their failure to > produce what should be an expected part of any reflex system. This I cannot agree more. Again, the root of the problem is down to Leica's failure of meeting customers' needs. A company of such repute would discontinue a product leaving many back orders unfulfilled is quite astonishing. I doubt cost was the real issue, as that would have been easily overcome. Joseph