Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 9/7/99 6:22:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 5521.g23@g23.relcom.ru writes: << Hasselblad doesn't make $250 cameras and they're doing fine, aren't they. Rolls Royce would be out of business if they made a $50,000 car with that name on it. >> Hasselblad *does* make a stripped-down entry-level body and the CB lenses (plastic barrels and made in Japan), albeit they're not in the $250 range, but they at least are responding proactively rather than depending on sales of used equipment to bring customers to their new products. And Rolls Royce *is* pretty much out of business last I heard.