Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frank, True, but you would probably not buy even then, and these "Special Editions" do sell out fast, and also deliver the high margins required to keep normal R&D chugging along in a company of Leica's size. A judicious mix of the two is really the only sensible course for Leica to prosper as a company. Who can blame the company for the Digilux line either, when consumers, it has been proven time and again, are only too willing to pay a hefty premium for a red dot? Any self respecting luxury company will price its products at what the market will bear, not on a cost plus basis. After all, one of the fundamental tenets of the Laws of Contract is "caveat emptor"... Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote: > There are 2 kinds of special edition cameras: one uses garish finishes > and leathers to pimp up the standard body or lens. This uses > infinitesimal R+D resources. Think gold bodies with ostrich leather in > wooden boxes > The other uses totally new body castings, added or subtracted features to > the HW/SW. This is like a new development, requiring much work of > resources. Think M9P, M Edition 60, etc. made in small quantities, 99.99% > of us never get a chance to use these new or revised cameras. > > Maybe, in this population, we would rather the resources spent in > developing new, more useful gadgets in our M for all of us rather than the > pimped out version or those with limited availability. > > YMMV > > Frank Filippone > Red735i at verizon.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information