Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/10

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Alpa (Off Topic)
From: eenitka@ibm.net
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 08:45:13 -0700
References: <m0vB7vb-000FfHC@island.amtsgi.bc.ca>

David Young wrote:
> 
> Gentlemen:
> 
> A while back there was (because of their past cameras) quite a discussion on
> this list about ALPA being back in business...
> 
> Yesterday I received an unsolicited brochure on the Alpa 12 6x6cm camera,
> and one paragraph quite scares me.
> 
> "How much does the Alpa 12 cost?  A great deal, we are sorry to say.
> Technological perfection, coupled with small production runs have their
> price. We inform genuinely interested prospective buyers personally."  (!)
> 
> I am not an "interested prospective buyer" and so would not have the gall to
> ask them. But I'm curious particulary since we all know that Leica's don't
> come cheaply, and Leica *will* tell us the price! Does anybody know what is
> the going rate on the Alpa?
> 
> -----------
> David Young: youngs@IslandNet.com Victoria B.C. CANADA
> 
>         I cook with wine. Sometimes
>                 I even put it in the food!David - Don't quote me but somewhere i read that the new Alpa was going
to be in the 10-12k range! Seems incredible and that's why you shouldn't
quote me.  Their ads and elitist attitude bespeaks a 10-12k product tho'

ernie nitka

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