Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/21

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Subject: RE: [Leica] R and M 6 Prices
From: "Logan Reinwood" <reinwood007@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:27:36 +0000

Hi,

They were speaking somewhere about 5000 Swiss Francs (2900 USD) for the M7 
whereas the actual CATALOG price in Switzerland for a M6 TTL is 4450 Swiss 
Francs (2600 USD).

We'll see..........

logan.

>From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: RE: [Leica] R and M 6 Prices
>Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:00:54 -0500
>
>True - But the "average Joe" sure as hell isn't buying Leica Ms or Rs. 
>Let's
>talk apples and oranges. And in this case the apples and oranges are, when
>it comes to buying new equipment - and I know there are exceptions - pros,
>or very well heeled non-pros. And while there are certainly "middle
>class"-healed non-pros who decide to buy a Leica M or R because, by God,
>they want to, there are also "middle class"-healed non-pros who acquire
>Nikon or Canon "pro" digital cameras, or top-of-the-line SLR equipment.
>
>The point is that while I certainly don't see the $400-500 bump from an M6
>to an M7 as making either economic or photographic sense for me - based 
>ONLY
>on what I've heard on this list - it is hardly surprising that Leica would
>price it that way when introducing it.
>
>BTW - Rob Schneider = sometimes of this list - tells me that he was 
>perusing
>an Adorama catalogue from about 1994 and, lo and behold!, the M6 listed for
>$2400! So that means that in today's dollars it was over $2500 - and it's
>then hardly a surprise that the M7 would come in in that neigbhorhood - or
>higher.
>
>B. D.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Feliciano
>di Giorgio
>Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 9:13 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] R and M 6 Prices
>
>
>leica@davidmorton.org wrote:
> >
> > Feliciano di Giorgio writes:
> >
> > "The majority of digital cameras are priced well below that. Of course
> > there
> > is the Nikon D1 etc., but now we are talking really big bucks."
> >
>
> > If you know what you're doing the payback on a D1 or D1X is measured in 
>a
> > very small number of months.
>
>Sure, but I think we were talking about the average joe who doesn't
>do this for a living and they are buying digital cameras from $200-1100.
>
>feli
>
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