Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/29

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Subject: [Leica] M7/MP only 5% of US Leica Sales...
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:43:24 +0200
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I never said it was overpriced. Actually "overpriced" is a meaningless 
concept to an economist. Given that there seems to be a backlog, one could 
just well argue that Leica should raise the price since there is excess 
demand. 

What I did say is the I am not willing to pay the current price, which is 
not a statement about the market but only about my personal preferences.

Nathan

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On Mar 30, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Vince Passaro wrote:

> Nathan, if the M9 is "an improvement on the M8 for sure" -- and by all
> reports it's a very considerable improvement -- then is it rationale to
> expect/demand to pay the same price for the M9 as the M8? If the M9 is
> overpriced which it might be, as are some other FF cameras in that case,
> then the M8 when you bought it was overpriced too. Didn't stop you then why
> should it now?
> 
> If I had the money I'd do it in a second flat. Plus the 35mm Summicron and
> the 75 or the 90 as well. My fantasies are a little torn over the last one
> but I think if I have only 2 or 3 lenses then one should be the 90.  All
> six-bit juiced and ready to go.
> 
> One of the reasons the thing might be overpriced is that no one else in the
> known universe makes one. Or can make one.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at 
> earthlink.net>wrote:
> 
>> Absolutely......
>> 
>> I do not have, nor wish to spend, $7K on a camera "box".
>> If Leica had a FF camera at $4K, I MIGHT be tempted.....
>> 
>> Just as an aside, I do not understand the rationale for a $7K camera.....
>> other than the obvious, whatever the market will bear.....
>> 
>> Frank Filippone
>> red735i at earthlink.net
>> 
>> 
>> I don't. The M9 is an improvement on the M8, for sure, but no way will I
>> spend the current price on one. When I can get one for the price I paid 
>> for
>> my M8, I will consider it.
>> 
>> Nathan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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