Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They sometimes leave gaps when there are concurrent models to anticipate the "filling up" by the older models. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Oh I see the numbers are consecutive. > I thought they just picked a number arbitrarily every time they made a > camera! > > Rabs > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > > > > > From: Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 06:27:43 -0700 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Selling like Hotcakes....? > > > > I really liked the comparison to the Rebel volume..... > > > > Another way to look at this data is to track Serial Numbers by model > year. > > It is very crude but will give you a fair assessment for this purpose.. > > The M6 started around 1.6M and ended around 3M. About 1.4M Serial > > numbers.... > > There were really only a few R cameras ( compared to M) made during the > same > > time. Most of the cameras made were M6 ( of 1 or another version...) > > Taking half... 700K cameras is a fair guesstimate....even dividing that > by > > half gives 350K M6 cameras made.... > > > > The M6 sold a LOT more cameras than the M3... > > > > If you want real hard data, Erwin published a list of the M serial > numbers, > > including the M6 in some detail....you could add it up.. > > > > Frank Filippone > > Red735i at earthlink.net > > > > > > Leitz used to publish their production quantities but Leica Camera does > not. > > Pre Solms there are the following:- Leitz M6 about 30,000 (production > > continued by Leica Camera) M4P 22,444 > > M4-2 16,100 (+100 gold plated...) > > M5 33,900 > > M4 59,000 > > M2 85,000 > > MP 449 > > M3 226,178 > > > > Interestingly the M3 sold about as much as the rest put together - so > much > > for the myth that the M2 viewfinder was preferred, it carried over > because > > it was -much- cheaper to make... > > To put these figures into perspective Canon sell about 250,000 digital > rebel > > SLRs per month. > > FWIW, > > Frank > > > > ore 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 > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> // richard's personal photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]