Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My opinion is that the market is so small for a digi-rangefinder that none will ever fly off the shelves. If the sales had been good enough to pay for the development of the camera and a bit of profit the service would have been good and there would have been RD2 and RD3 by now. Cosina/Voigtlander would have continued if Epson did not. IMO the opinion that the M8 is overpriced profiteering is mistaken. At the market size for such a product the volume they produce will always be tiny and the tooling and R&D costs have to be amortised over a few units. It could well be a loss leader to sell more lenses :-) Frank On 20 Dec, 2008, at 23:32, Richard Man wrote: > The alignment problem is exaggerated. It was very easy to fix by > oneself. If > they price is at $1500 to $2000, it may have flown off the shelves. > > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Harrison McClary > <lists@mcclary.net> wrote: > >> If it had not had all the problems I read about then I'd have >> gotten one. >> But the stories about poor rangefinder alignment, and things like >> that kept >> me away...also it was not exactly in the category I was taking >> about, if I >> remember it was around 3 grand new. They are still 1500 used or >> so...I'd >> rather save a few more pennies and get a used M8 with all I have >> hear about >> the RD1. Now had the RD1 been a decent camera with good customer >> support...that'd have made a difference to me. >> >> > > > -- > // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com > // b: http://richardfman.wordpress.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information