Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Ah Yes, but what does it cost for a good bottle of whiskey? An arm and a leg in addition to the price you can get for your family when you sell them. To tell the truth, I couldn't tell you. I haven't been silly enough to consider buying whiskey in Oslo. I live in Sweden and work in Oslo. Sweden looks really cheap by comparison :) Daniel > > Regards, > > Greg > > Daniel Ridings wrote: > > >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 > > > > > > -- > 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