Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry hit sent too soon.... Jim, > Not always true Jim. Check out their Einestuck (one piece) and various > select models. But then again, I myself have always wondered how they stay in business since larger companies have went out. Could it be the prices are enough to keep them in business? Again supply and demand? I know there is an enormous after market for Leica equipment that would continue even if they went out of business, so maybe it a combination of users and prices. Peter K > ---------- > From: Jim Brick[SMTP:jim@brick.org] > Reply To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Sent: Sunday, February 14, 1999 12:51 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > 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 >