Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To put this in perspective, Canon sell 250,000 digital SLRs a month, that is more in 3 months than Leicas 70 odd year total. No wonder the canons can be made so cheap. On 9 Dec, 2006, at 01:34, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > > On Dec 8, 2006, at 6:54 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: > >> (Question for the group: how many Leica M cameras have been >> produced?) >> >> Adam > > > According to the figures on the Cameraquest web site, 691,713 M > series Leicas were produced. This total does not include the M7 > series or the Leica wannabes from Zeiss, Voitlander, Rollei or > other cameras that take the M mount lenses. That's a lotta Leicas. > Probably most are still in existence although I suspect that quite > a few are gathering dust in closets. Assuming 2 lenses per camera > and adding in those LTM lenses fitted with adapters, we are talking > about perhaps two million Leica lenses which could be used on a > digital Leica. > > So the conclusion is that there is a viable market for a retrofit > Leica back if one can be produced at a reasonable (i.e., less than > $1000) price. > > I own 2 M3s, a CL, 4 LTMs, and about a dozen lenses. I also own one > of the first Leica digitals, the Digilux Zoom. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information