Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] a few Leica announcements
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 20:43:28 -0500

At 12:44 PM 12/7/1999 PST, Mike Gil wrote:
>Is this for real or is this just something to get our juices going.
>Were'nt M3's, M2's, and MP's black bodies the some price when they first 
>came out.  

No, they were not.  Black cameras have almost always, if not always, cost
more.  In 1966, for instance, a chrome M3 cost $288, a black M3 cost $327,
a 14% price difference.

Marc

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