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Subject: [Leica] Leica prices
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:01:20 +0000
References: <C7BC22E0.5F082%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Spot on Rabs

On 9 Mar, 2010, at 21:08, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> Older inherited cameras need service.  Younger customers buy used & trade
>> for new later when they're older.  A healthy used market means equipment
>> can be sold to help pay for the latest (new) equipment.  The sky is not
>> falling.
>> 
>> Doug Herr
> 
> 
> I was told in 1965 than there is a company which makes a camera which has
> interchangeable lenses as I wanted a tele for my Voigtl?nder Vito BL when I
> was 13.  I wanted to "zoom in" I was told that Leitz blew it not getting
> into making SLR's soon enough and they'd probably not make it through the
> week. Get a Nikon F everybody said.
> I was told that about every year since. Leica would not make it through the
> month or year.
> When I joined the LUG a dozen years ago I was  repeatedly told they would 
> be
> going under for not going AF*. And not updating their cloth shutter. The
> revolutionary Contax G pile of junk had just come out and the super geeks
> were wild about it. It was for sure going to put Leica out of business
> unless they came out with a cheap answer for it. Or make lenses to fit it.
> And four years ago on the LUG I was told about the demise of Leica which 
> was
> spoken of in the past tense by everybody on the entire LUG save one or two.
> One.  As this new thing called "digital photography" they also saw as a fly
> by night fad and they didn't jump on the band wagon soon enough.
> Leica jumps on the band wagon LATE every time we can count on that for 
> sure.
> When the holographic cameras come out they're going to sit on it for 
> awhile.
> And come out with one way late and for way too much money.
> But I guarantee you'll think your mother in laws head is slowly rotating 
> two
> feet over your kitchen table and the remote control will have a red dot on
> it.
> 
> We can count on them doing what they have been doing for 87 years since the
> 25 prototypes; making the best gear out there.
> They are not going to come out with a cheap plastic DSLR to compete with 
> the
> masses who are out buying cropped Nikons and Canon tupperware monsters.
> 
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
> *auto focus
> 
> 
> 
> 
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