Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/25

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Subject: [Leica] M8 and the Future
From: lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth)
Date: Wed Oct 25 14:55:06 2006
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As a rangefinder user I would have been in a minority whatever camera  
I used - even cheap rangefinders aren't exactly thick on the ground.  
 From a selfish perspective I prefer rangefinders and that the  
beginning, middle and end of it ;-)

Steve

On 25 Oct 2006, at 22:47, Matt Powell wrote:

> Even in the M6 days, you were party of a tiny minority, right? 1 Leica
> sold for every 100 good Canon bodies. That's no different today - a
> Leica M8 is simply too expensive to ignite any kind of renaissance for
> the company. There just aren't that many people who can afford to pay
> $4800+tax for a single body.

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