Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mike: Again your experience cuts through it. But I hope you're wrong. The question I always come back to is: who is the Leica M market? Right now that isn't so clear. It isn't Ted Grant, he has three, and since they don't wear out . . . It seems that this camera: > --swing-open back > --built-in motorized film advance > --autoloading > --auto-rewind on demand > --a modern shutter with speeds to 1/4000th and 1/250 flash sync > --TTL flash metering > --better dust sealing Would sell like hotcakes to every current M owner. Ted pisses and moans, but if it felt like an M and could wind itself he'd be first in line. How much bigger of a market could they hope to get with a G2 clone? This isn't a rhetorical question. Do you know? Tom > > Most people who buy cameras don't use them (or don't use them seriously), and >these non-, casual, and occasional users constitute the buyers who must be >satisfied by a new product. It's not that Leica will get it wrong through >ignorance; it's that they _must_ get it wrong (in user's terms) in order to >market a salable product that will appeal to today's market. Mark my words. > > --Mike (Editor, _PHOTO Techniques_ magazine, Chicago) > >