[Leica] unboxing

[pjleeson at mchsi.com (Philip Leeson)]

Titanium seems pretty cheap to me:

<http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/404676390/Gr5_ASTM_F67_Titanium_rod_for.html>

I think it was priced at $26500 to ensure exclusivity for the 500 buyers 
with too much money and no sense of worth.

Phil


On Feb 16, 2011, at 8:55 AM, J. Newell wrote:

> My recollection from years ago, when Nikon was running off small 
> quantities of bodies in titanium (F2, F3 and Fm2/T; maybe others), was 
> that there were significant additional manufacturing costs for the 
> titanium body parts, which would be exacerbated (I can use words like that 
> on this list, I think) by the relatively small volume involved. 
> 
> John Newell 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Frank Dernie " <Frank. Dernie @ btinternet .com> 
> To: " Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 9:50:17 AM 
> Subject: Re: [ Leica ] unboxing 
> 
> Golf driver heads are trivial to manufacture, and made in substantial 
> quantity, even if the R&D is higher (which I actually doubt, Golf kit has 
> one of the most susceptible bunch of buyers for a bit of pseudo-science 
> ;-) In addition it is a competitive market with loads of people being able 
> to make them. So they will be cheaper. 
> OTOH Leica is clearly making a big profit on these, and doing some image 
> boosting with certain types of client. Nobody else has been daft enough to 
> machine Ti cameras from solid so the price may well even reflect the 
> cost... The Olympus and Nikon Ti parts being relatively inexpensive covers 
> made from Ti sheet. 
> cheers, 
> Frank 
> 
> On 16 Feb, 2011, at 04:48, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: 
> 
>> 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 
> 
> 
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