Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/28

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Subject: [Leica] M8 and the Future
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)
Date: Sat Oct 28 10:49:49 2006
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Matt Powell offered:
>
>> Even in the M6 days, you were party of a tiny minority, right? 1 Leica
>> sold for every 100 good Canon bodies. That's no different today - a
>> Leica M8 is simply too expensive to ignite any kind of renaissance for
>> the company. There just aren't that many people who can afford to pay
>> $4800+tax for a single body.<<<<

I thought you lads might like to know during the 3 day Leica Seminar this 
past week, that out of 40 attendees there were orders for 12 M8's!!!!! :-)

ted


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