Re: [Leica] nikon s3

[lucien <director@ubi.edu>]

Daniel Bowdoin wrote:

> It's my impression that the S3 is a limited-edition slightly-updated copy
> of the 1958 S3. Only a couple of thousand built, only one lens available
> (50/1.4), sold by subscription in theory only in Japan. Meant for
> collectors, not for users, as a sort of millenium commemorative issue. I
> suppose that conceptually it occupies a similar place in Nikon's product
> line as the O camera occupies in Leica's. I suspect that the ones that
> are beginning to show up here now were imported directly from Japan,
> outside the Nikon USA channel. Years ago Nikon did something vaguely
> similar marketwise with the F3P, a camera which Nikon USA would tell you
> didn't exist.

Daniel,

I don't think so.

In Belgium, the S3 is imported by the official Nikon distributor (who happen to
be the Leica distributor by the way) and they where offered to dealers to order
as soon the news was on the web one year ago.

They are in the windows now, and don't attract to many buyers, I'm afraid.

Lucien