Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A pretty constant thread is the ridiculous price of Leica gear. Usually a certain Leica lens price is contrasted with another manufacturer's price for a similar lens. The last one was comparing 50/1.4s with Nikon at $265US (SLR) and Leica at $1900US. This is not comparing apples with apples or even another piece of fruit! Nikon just built a copy of their old S4, which was one the cheapest models available from them in the fifties, with a 50/1.4. They still had the old tooling so there was very little in the way of development costs. It sells for $6000US and Nikon says they are LOSING MONEY ON EVERY ONE! John Collier - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html