Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter K wrote: >Just sell your car and F5 and take out a small loan you will be all set ;-) >Those prices are ludicrous. I can buy a Contax 645 with zeiss lenses for the >price of those two and get a neg nearly 3 times as large. Geeeezzz. I hope >Leica wakes up one day and realizes their prices are insane.>>>>>>> Hello Peter, As was explained to me in 1988 after my Winter Olympics "road testing" of the prototype 400 2.8. I put in my after Games report, "But why make them at that price...$20,000? What's the point of making them if we can't afford to buy them?" Response! "Mr. Grant because you can't afford a Mercedes, does that mean they shouldn't make the Mercedes car?" In other words, "because you can't afford the $20,000 for the 400 2.8, we shouldn't make them? However, there are those who can, so we must make them for those who can." :) I guess if you can cut the price that's cool, but those who can't afford the price, that's their problem, not Leica's! I don't think Leica need to wake-up on their pricing as long as there are those who can afford and will spend for Leica quality. I guess if Leica find they aren't selling and go tits up, we can figure on buying alot of cheap lenses. However, I think that's highly unlikely in the foreseeable future. ted Ted Grant This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant