Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I buy golf clubs with their heads made out of titanium at a fraction of the price, where in all probability, far higher R&D costs have to be recovered Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Me I'm a big sucker for packaging and brand names I gotta be real broke > that > week to buy generic if I have some day $30,000 to blow on a Leica made of > solid unobtainium I'd want to box it came int to be real cool. Leica knows > about people like me. > They also know that people like me love the idea that such a thing as a > solid Titanium Leica M9 really does exist. As they made it. > But I bet they'd charge less if it was just a choice of metal and not the > fancy designer guy and only 500 copies made. > > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > Cars: ? http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb > > > > >> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:37:10 +0530 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] unboxing >> >> How much does that variant cost? How much of that is the cost of all >> that paper? Or is a lot of the price justified by giving pouches for >> the cables and wires? (-: >> >> It is far easier unboxing a Nikon - which I did last evening with a >> D7000! Reach in, grab body, grab battery & charger, charge. Took me >> all of 30 seconds. >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> >> wrote: >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6s0hynipAQ >>> >>> ric >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >