Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And you thought "vapor ware" was only produced by the computer industry.. ;-) > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Pascal > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 3:32 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: [Leica] Waiting more than a year for the new R 35-70/2.8 ASPH > > > At Photokina 98 (remember?) the new Vario-Elmarit-R 35-70/2.8 > ASPH was > presented. Deliveries were promised for early Spring 99. > > Meanwhile, there were several manufacturing problems that I > explained in > an earlier posting to this group, which made the delivery > date slip back > to after the Summer. > > Now, after an enquiry with one of the two largest German > Leica dealers, > it appears that one would have to wait for another year to actually > acquire one of these babies, if an order was placed now. He > gets one of > them every 6 weeks, and there is already a long waiting list !!! > > No wonder Leica is in dire financial straits :-( > > Pascal > NO ARCHIVE > > -------------------------------------------------------- > See my photo pages at http://members.xoom.com/cyberplace/ > ------------------------------------------------------- > "Windows 95 doesn't smile back at me when I turn it on." > ------------------------------------------------------- > <<< PGP public key available on request >>> > >