Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Geil, OK. As long as it doesn't get schmutzig :?) > From: Didier Ludwig <rangefinder@screengang.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:25:41 +0100 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: RE: [Leica]New Nikon SP 2005 Limited Edition Introduced > > :-) > > I guess there a some real RF freaks in the Nikon board (any Nikon > Historical Society lads here to confirm that?) otherwise this camera > wouldn't exist, probably. Why should successful product managers as those > from Nikon not have a unrational passion? > > I'm by far not a collector nor could I afford such a camera, but as you use > the german term "kindergarten", I tell you in german that this kamera is > just "GEIL!!!" - I'd love to shoot with it! > > Didier > > > >> Duh! Double Duh! >> >> When you make a camera that sells a few 10K units a month, then try a >> retro >> job, tool up a completely new camera, where the entire production run is a >> few thousand units of a 50 year old camera, using obsolete (film) media, >> what does any rational manager expect? A promotion? >> >> This whole retro film camera thing is a Harvard MBA study for >> kindergarteners. >> >> Frank Filippone >> red735i@earthlink.net >> >> >> It's all new tooling that was made for the S3-2000 reproduction. They >> took quite a bath on it when the S3 didn't sell as much as they liked. > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >