Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/17

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Subject: [Leica] How much does it cost to make an M4-P2 $499? body the buyout
From: jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)
Date: Thu Feb 17 17:38:42 2005
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Not as much as they would have made on M5 sales that went to the CL. 
One could argue that the CL killed the M5. The real winner was Minolta. 
They made more money on each CL sold and they gain invaluable prestige.

John Collier

On 17-Feb-05, at 6:21 PM, mak@teleport.com wrote:

> Leica made money on every one of the 65,000 CLs that Minolta made for 
> them...
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