Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Christer Almqvist jotted down the following: > NOTHING HAPPENS! > I filled out my form and mailed it off eight weeks ago, nothing has happened. > I am a bit peeved too, but for other reasons than Nathan. > Don't worry. It was originally supposed to be introduced during the last quarter of '99, but production problems in getting exactly the right thickness of paper and the 2 micron glossy coating means that it will be delayed until the third quarter of '02, at which time it will sell for $95 an issue and the special knife you need to cut the pages will be available for an additional $295. Of course, at this point, we will have a flood of messages from owners of two popular Japanese brand cameras who will point out that not only did they solve the paper quality/coating thickness issue 20 years ago, their magazines are larger, cheaper, more frequently published, and they already come with uncut pages, which will result in a set of horrid flamewars on the perceived luminance of the photographs in the respective publications and messages from at least three different people that the Germans invented printing in the 15th century, but that the Japanese stole the technology. Additionally, dog-earred copies of the first issue will be selling in eBay auctions as "mint-, very collectible" for 1.4x the price of the back-issues from Leica itself. Now, where did I leave that Agfa Clack...? M. - -- Martin Howard | "We can't make mistakes like that on our Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | own. We need computers to help us." email: howard.390@osu.edu | -- A pharmacologist on computerization www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +-------------------------------------------