Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/10

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Subject: RE: RE: [Leica] Full circle with Nikons
From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:16:44 -0400

Well, I must be number three as I am eying the prices of mint R8's and
most commonly use an SL2 if I use a SLR.

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Douglas
Herr
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:08 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: RE: [Leica] Full circle with Nikons

langhans <langhans@compwrx.com> wrote:

> 
> OK, BD.  I'm one.  Would the other 5 like to speak out?
>
> Aram

>> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:13:39 -0400
>> From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
>> Subject: RE: [Leica] Full circle with Nikons
>> Message-ID: <001c01c346e5$1449c5a0$0316fea9@ccasony01>
>> References: 
>> 
>> The reason Nikon still has F3's for sale is the same reason 
>> that the R line has been a financial dog for Leica - there 
>> are only about six people out there these days in the market 
>> for a solid, reliable, manual focus SLR any more. The F3 was 
>> and is a terrific camera - but it came out at the wrong time 
>> in the evolution of Autofocus and auto everything.
> 

Here's another.  Four more - then we've accounted for the entire market.



Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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