Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/02

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Subject: [Leica] M7/MP only 5% of US Leica Sales...
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:51:31 -0400
 
> Well percentages are meaningless without the actual numbers and remember
> that I said guesstimate of 100 M9 cameras a day. In any case Leica Camera
> has never been a high volume manufacturer and they are currently working
> overtime and I guess maximum capacity too. What is known is that the M9 has
> now been on sale for 6 months and demand is still considerably higher than
> snip 

I think the film M's are being bought by very old very rich clueless rich
guys living on tops of mountains in Tibet. But a few on top of Mount
Kilimanjaro and at least one top of Mount McKinley by the name of "Mike".
When they bring the film in to the drug store and the nice young person
behind the counter has never heard of film they buy a cheap camera there
from behind the glass counter and put the nice Leica collectors item on a
nice hermetically sealed shelf in their house with twelve bathrooms.
And triple pane glass windows. With a hell of a view.



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Mark William Rabiner
In reply to: Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] M7/MP only 5% of US Leica Sales...)