Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tom: You asked: >Are R8 sales that bad ;-)? BTW, what are the other two >overpriced items? > >Leica would have been better off, in the beginning, >to concentrate on getting "reliability" into their R8; >now, they have had two price drops ( upsetting their >initial customers ) & will probably introduce a higher >priced R8.2 with nothing more than the "bug" fixes! > >Tom D. _____________________ R8's are NOT bad., lenses were priced above the US market. Prices will fall as exchange rates continue to spred. First ones had a few bugs...but so did first R4's, M6's and R7's. Don