Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At PhotoPlus Expo, they offered a rental scheme around $1K a month & a few hundred more for a lens to use with the S2. Dennis On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> >> time will tell if anyone who can afford the S2, will choose it, replace >> their >> former system, pay for it...show us their results, and convince us. >> >> we'll see, and if we care let's look for some evidence of it, beyond the >> obvious examples of product placement that we have seen, which sadly only >> obscure the real questions of value and quality. >> >> I can't afford it, don't need it or want it, though I admit it may well >> take >> great photos, I don't like to be manipulated. >> >> Remember the old sales line...Where's the beef ? >> >> Steve > > Its a big "who knows?". > No one dreamed in million years they'd be paying Five and a half grand for > a > body but they bought the M8 in droves. > Then its ?Seven grand for the M9 and it looks like we're seeing no shortage > of takers on the LUG. Let alone anywhere else. > So here it is $22,995 new at B&H one more call to the bank to have some > money moved around. That kid can get a scholarship. > It will be interesting to see who ponies up for it. > I predict on the LUG there will be three maybe four. > So that's $91,980 bucks if its four of them. > That's 46 two thousand dollar camera bodies. One for every room in the > house. Right next to the flat screen in every room in the house. > Most people I run into will be renting them. > > " A new car is second only to a home as the most expensive purchase many > consumers make. According to the National Automobile Dealers Association, > the average price of a new car sold in the United States is $28,400" > > http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/autos/aut11.shtm > > One less car. (you need a lens) > > > > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >