Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wrong ... Camera prices in Norway are, if anything, lower than in Sweden, up to 15-20%. (When it comes to digital Nikons (D100), Canons (D60) and various Leica stuff, not to mention Mamiyas. Daniel On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Per Claesson wrote: > Leica is probably targeting the Norwegian market, where the prices are > probably the highest in the world nowadays. People seem to need > something to spend their money on up there, and there is enough > national pride over there. Dunno if anyone could care less in Sweden > and Denmark... > > /Per > > > > Hi Oddmund, > > > > I know that you are right, my post was just an attempt to provoke the > > Finns on the list ;-) Although I must say that I believe that the > > correct usage is in fact Scandinavia for DK, S and N since and Norden > > further includes Iceland and Finland. I also equally well know that > > the Finns consider themselves Scandinavian, even if their language > > most certainly does not belong to that language family. > > > > I agree with you even more about the silliness of paying hundreds of > > Euros extra for the various special editions. But if it helps Leica > > survive financially, then I'm all for it (as long as someone else is > > doing the buying)! > > > > Cheers, > > Nathan > > > > nomansland@altern.org wrote: > >> Jeu 12 déc 2002 23:23:08 +0100 > >> Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> a écrit: > >>> Four? There are three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway and > >>> Sweden. Throw in Finland and Iceland and you have the Nordic > >>> countries. So which is the fourth non-Scandinavian flag? Finnish? > >> No, geographically only Norway and Sweden covers the Scandinavian > >> peninsula - Denmark belongs to the European continent. Politically and > >> culturally the terms Scandinavia and the Nordic countries are used > >> indifferently for the same unity - "Norden" - Iceland, Norway, Denmark > >> (Faroes/Greenland), Sweden and Finland. Historically even the Baltic > >> states belonged to the Nordic unity. > >> This is probably not very interesting in the context. What does it > >> change if it is the Finnish, or the Islandic flag that is printed on > >> this totally ridiculous Leica edition? Because it has to be considered > >> as another "special edition" - even if it probably just was thought > >> as a > >> "Demo series" - when some people manage to make business with it. > >> That is the interesting, amazing (and once again ridiculous) part: > >> these tiny printed, or engraved (?) flags cost 200$ !!! Oddmund > >>> Håkan Dennersten wrote: > >>> > >>>> A "scandinavian" m7 is now released also. It has the four > >>>> scandinavian flags printed on top. It is sold in the shops for 3200 > >>>> $ the regular M7 is sold for 3000 $ > >>>> > >>>> /HD > >>> > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe, see > >> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > -- > > Nathan Wajsman > > Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > > > > e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch > > mobile: +41 78 732 1430 > > > > Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm > > General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > V i s i M e d i a -- G r a f i s k D e s i g n & W e b b p r o d > u k t i o n > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > www.visimedia.com > Tel. 0416-300 07, 070 99 22 55 9 > Fax 0416 300 03 > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html