Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 2/17/05 7:48:17 PM Pacific Standard Time, lug-request@leica-users.org writes: Leica made money on every one of the 65,000 CLs that Minolta made for them... Designing, wholesaling and packaging and distributing and marketing isn't manufacturing. Yet there's enough Leica in a CL to make it a very good camera indeed, as are its lenses. Sure, Leitz made a profit on each CL, but the CL was discontinued after a few years for reasons I don't know. The meter system could have been upgraded. But I make excellent images with my CL. And that's the bottom line. The market isn't us. But a great company makes a market; as Steve Jobs did with the Mac Mini. Leica has that opportunity by producing a digital M 35mm format and a DSLR that can compete with the D70. Then they could sell their non pareil lenses to really make profit. Bob