Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/15

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Subject: [Leica] unboxing
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:18:26 +0530
References: <AANLkTi=-akJBASA8HTgLSdDPHeYwHKM+h8jthCS==2Wv@mail.gmail.com> <C980BE93.ABBC%mark@rabinergroup.com>

I buy golf clubs with their heads made out of titanium at a fraction
of the price, where in all probability, far higher R&D costs have to
be recovered
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:
> Me I'm a big sucker for packaging and brand names I gotta be real broke 
> that
> week to buy generic if I have some day $30,000 to blow on a Leica made of
> solid unobtainium I'd want to box it came int to be real cool. Leica knows
> about people like me.
> They also know that people like me love the idea that such a thing as a
> solid Titanium Leica M9 really does exist. As they made it.
> But I bet they'd charge less if it was just a choice of metal and not the
> fancy designer guy and only 500 copies made.
>
>
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> Cars: ? http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb
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>
>> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:37:10 +0530
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] unboxing
>>
>> How much does that variant cost? How much of that is the cost of all
>> that paper? Or is a lot of the price justified by giving pouches for
>> the cables and wires? (-:
>>
>> It is far easier unboxing a Nikon - which I did last evening with a
>> D7000! Reach in, grab body, grab battery & charger, charge. Took me
>> all of 30 seconds.
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6s0hynipAQ
>>>
>>> ric
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