Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/04

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Subject: [Leica] Hoot!
From: jonathan at openhealth.org (Jonathan Borden)
Date: Mon Oct 4 11:50:29 2004
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Douglas Herr wrote:

>
>If I'm reading the photography markets correctly, film and film cameras now 
>have little to do with photography.  As I see it Leica is milking the 
>classic M for all they can until they can get a digital RF on the market.  
>I think the custom configuration option is kewl but for $1000 extra plus 
>options it's clearly not intended for photographers.
>  
>
Either that or its intended for photographers who haven't seen this:

http://www.cameraleather.com/leica_m/

I imagine that for $1000 Leica makes quite the nice markup on 
anotherwise $40 product.

:-/

Jonathan
In reply to: Message from telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr) ([Leica] Hoot!)