Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:12 AM 11/9/99 -0500, Marc James Small wrote: >Not necessarily, Eric. A bunch of accomplished pros have been given >Leicas, and a slew of others. Hugo Eckener, the Zeppelin man, got two, as >did Erwin Rommel (he lost the first). Heads of state are frequent recipients. Yep, I already knew that. They gave an 80 Summilux to Jim Stanfield, who turned around and sold it and bought a 90 Summicron. That focal length was not his favorite, so he decided he could get by with a smaller, lighter lens. His favorite focal lengths are 24 and 180. Leica has given away a bunch of cameras. And seems to me they did well giving two cameras to the queen, she's kept buying them. Doesn't she have an M6 now? The formula, get rich people hooked on a couple of loss leader bodies and they keep buying more stuff.