Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If "dentists" make it possible for Leica to survive and even prosper ... perhaps we should be a bit less judgemental...if collectors want to pay a premium for a special engraving great! That means the company that makes the cameras I choose to use will remain in business. REPLY: Absolutely true. I wasn't being judgmental. I just sound revoltingly judgmental ;-) Who cares WHO buys the equipment. My real point is, as it's been in a number of other posts, that Leica is pricing itself out of existence. I would wager that the reason so few working pros use Leicas has as much...or more...to do with price than it does with cost. Not many photojournalists can rationalize a $1300 35 Summicron for an M when, for the same money, they can get two Nikon AF D zooms....