Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/29

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Subject: [Leica] M7/MP only 5% of US Leica Sales...
From: passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:08:55 -0400
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Nathan, if the M9 is "an improvement on the M8 for sure" -- and by all
reports it's a very considerable improvement -- then is it rationale to
expect/demand to pay the same price for the M9 as the M8? If the M9 is
overpriced which it might be, as are some other FF cameras in that case,
then the M8 when you bought it was overpriced too. Didn't stop you then why
should it now?

If I had the money I'd do it in a second flat. Plus the 35mm Summicron and
the 75 or the 90 as well. My fantasies are a little torn over the last one
but I think if I have only 2 or 3 lenses then one should be the 90.  All
six-bit juiced and ready to go.

One of the reasons the thing might be overpriced is that no one else in the
known universe makes one. Or can make one.



On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at 
earthlink.net>wrote:

> Absolutely......
>
> I do not have, nor wish to spend, $7K on a camera "box".
> If Leica had a FF camera at $4K, I MIGHT be tempted.....
>
> Just as an aside, I do not understand the rationale for a $7K camera.....
> other than the obvious, whatever the market will bear.....
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i at earthlink.net
>
>
> I don't. The M9 is an improvement on the M8, for sure, but no way will I
> spend the current price on one. When I can get one for the price I paid for
> my M8, I will consider it.
>
> Nathan
>
>
>
>
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