[Leica] Re: Leica sightings

[Summicron1 at aol.com (Summicron1@aol.com)]

statisically, you are rather unlikely to see leicas in public at all -- 
consider, what is the seriel number of the newest Leica? In the 4 million 
range? 5 
million, tops?

That means maybe 4 million of them made since 1926. By the mid-50s they had 
made 1 million, and most of those are probably sitting on shelves or in 
boxes 
or got blown up in the Hindenberg or something.   That leaves 3 million 
still 
in circulation, more or less.

Now, how many own more than one? Everyone on this list, so the number on the 
street on any given day is reduced again, unless I want to walk around with 
8 
of them around my neck (including the Model C).

So on any given day I'd bet, world wide, there's not more than 2 million 
Leicas up and running with film in them, ready to be used.   And that is 
world-wide, spread among how many billions of people? Maybe half of those 
cameras are 
in the United States, with 280 million people, and I'd bet only a small 
percentage of them are in New York City.

So, the miracle is that you saw any at all, and given that number I'd have 
to 
say the Leica is still wildly popular. Consider: Minolta has made 10s of 
millions of SRT model single lens reflex cameras. How may of those did you 
see? 
How many Nikon Fs? How many Canon Fs?

Not a one, I bet.

c trentelman
In a message dated 2/20/05 6:55:24 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org writes:


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> Message: 32
> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:54:10 -0500
> From: "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor@comcast.net>
> Subject: [Leica] Leica Sightings
> To: lug@leica-users.org
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> I almost never see other folks with Leicas when I travel.? Yesterday,
> at "The Gates" in New York's Central Park, where just about every
> other person was using? a digital P&S, I saw the following:
> 
> 1 M7
> 2 M6 Classics
> 1 M3 wearing a collapsible Summicron
> 1 Digilux 1
> 1 Digilux 2.
> 
> That's the record for the "Most-Leica-Sightings-In-One-Place" award
> in my experience (other than at Leica meetings,of course).? All were
> being "worn" on the chest, BTW; none were in use.
> 
> Most of the DSLRs I saw were various flavors of Nikons.? I saw a few
> film SLRs, including one old no-meter Nikon F.
> 
> The Park was a mobbed; more crowded than I've ever seen it.? Shutters
> clicked continuously.? I even caught a few people taking pictures of
> *me* while I was taking pictures of others - unfair!
> 
> I was using my M7 and hope to have some pictures to post in a couple of 
> days.
> --
> Regards,
> 
> Dick
> Boston MA
>