Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/09

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Subject: [Leica] Leica prices
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:24:14 -0600
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If Leica were interested in younger, less affluent customers, why wouldn't 
they price the X-1 more attractively.  You can't expect these potential 
customers to cough up $2K for a point and shoot, regardless of the quality.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Forrest" <photo.forrest at earthlink.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica prices


> Agreed. And if/when I can afford anything new from Leica aside from
> their fantastic loupe or an M8 battery, I'll certainly jump on that
> opportunity. I just don't know when or even if that is going to happen
> in this economic climate for the foreseeable future. It might be a
> decade or more before I can afford that new 21mm 'Lux that I lust over.
> Phil Forrest
>
>
>> old leica cameras and old leica lenses lead to leica awareness, leica
>> pride, new leica lenses and even new leica cameras,
>>
>> I think you Phil are an example of exactly that.
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
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