Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/26

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Subject: [Leica] Re:M8 and the Future
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)
Date: Thu Oct 26 05:41:07 2006
References: <c4b.629c076.3270021c@aol.com><22c93b290610241841k2d1d1d24xa9ce1a9482b3ccc4@mail.gmail.com><9376F541-A7F5-4BEF-ACB3-5965B7AD3523@steveunsworth.co.uk><22c93b290610251447k3dfb4b0fgec061c3e0f52bbaa@mail.gmail.com> <045FA9A2-131E-4C01-9D0F-DF170289D3AB@btinternet.com>

So that's around 3,000,000 cameras that will be sent to a trash dump in less
than 10 years.

Chris



----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Dernie" Subject: M8 and the Future


> I read that Canon sold 250,000 EOS 350D per month. That is more than
> the total Leica M3 production, the highest published production model
> Leica ever. Canon can amortise the development cost over tens of
> thousands more units. They will always be cheaper.
> Frank
> On 25 Oct, 2006, at 22:47, Matt Powell wrote:
>
> > Even in the M6 days, you were party of a tiny minority, right? 1 Leica
> > sold for every 100 good Canon bodies.



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