[Leica] M6 user/collectible!

[Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>]

Peter K. wrote:

> >  This is the reason the M is more a collectible than a user
> camera.
>
>> The Ms are nice but in reality little
>> used today by the great majority of photographers.
>

With this logic, it is difficult to imagine how Leica stays in business.
Collectors and people who don't take pictures typically don't buy new
cameras. The M6 would be history by now if "photographers" didn't buy them.
As with any camera system, there is a percentage of buyers that, for some
reason or another, never use the equipment. But this cannot be the
majority. There are enough "photographers" buying new M cameras and lenses
to fully support that division of Leica. It would be impossible to design
and produce all of the new M (ASPH and APO) lenses as well as the TTL M6
without a viable market. The company, Leica AG, would be long gone if
"users" did not buy new equipment.

The notion that the M is more a collector than a user, or that the M is
little used today, is, fortunately, incorrect.

Jim