Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]dear Jim, we might not all be collectors, but wasn't the "PAD" a bit funny ? the professionals. please don't hit too hard. ciao andreas Dr Andreas Frijdal Casalmonte 50020 San Polo in Chianti (Fi) Tuscany Italy frijdal@tin.it +39-055-8307318 home frijdal@iue.it +39-055-4685332 work - -----Original Message----- From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: 14 February 1999 21:57 Subject: [Leica] M6 user/collectible! >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