[Leica] Leica prices

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

I am surprised that the price has only doubled in real terms. Other
companies that have made the leap from manufacturers of relatively mass
market consumer durables to high luxury (like Montblanc and Rolex for
example) in the same period have seen much higher increases in prices in
real (i.e. inflation adjusted) terms. All these companies price their goods
at what the market will bear, and not on plebeian principles like cost
plus, so there is no point going down that road. It is like trying to
figure out the price of a Dior Couture dress by the cost of the cloth and
thread. Pointless.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net>
wrote:

> The new M-a is a box. Nothing more, nothing less.  As such, the important
> functions are RF accuracy and timing accuracy.  In fact, there are no other
> functions.
>
> I would point out that this new analog M film camera is competing with ALL
> the previous M cameras ever made. M4-2 or M4-p sell for $1,000 or
> thereabouts. Used.
>
> If you must buy new and do not want a meter, there is probably some NOS M4
> stock still available, or the simple thing to do is to just take the
> battery out of a NOS M6, which would cost you $1300 or so.
>
> This new camera represents, IMO the using up of a lot of NOS parts, if you
> will.  It will sell to collectors and the rich and famous who may or may
> not know it uses film...
>
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
>
>
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