Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> My comment was to point out the fallacy of no fact based assumptions. > > We do not have any data that states Leica uses more expensive glass blanks > than does Canon. > > Yes, we all believe that the volumes required, Canon blanks would be less > expensive. Even then, the cost of the glass hardly is $4800 more. > > Manufacturing efficiencies, QA/QC, labor costs (although Japan is not > exactly a low cost manufacturing center,...), cost based accounting, > marketing policies, and profiteering are the other part. > > Banal? A M8 $12 Battery ( retail HK Price) costs $175 at Leica......More > likely profiteering at hand here.... Leica does NOT make batteries..... it > markets them. It does make you wonder about he other products, that we > have > no direct cost based comparison..... > > Frank Filippone > red735i at earthlink.net I think the glass types Leica uses can be found in patents and elsewhere. Mark William Rabiner