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Subject: [Leica] Selling like Hotcakes....?
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:16:22 -0400

Oh I see the numbers are consecutive.
I thought they just picked a number arbitrarily every time they made a
camera!

Rabs
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Mark William Rabiner
Photography



> From: Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 06:27:43 -0700
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Selling like Hotcakes....?
> 
> I really liked the comparison to the Rebel volume.....
> 
> Another way to look at this data is to track Serial Numbers by model year.
> It is very crude but will give you a fair assessment for this purpose..
> The M6 started around 1.6M and ended around 3M.  About 1.4M Serial
> numbers....
> There were really only a few R cameras ( compared to M) made during the 
> same
> time.  Most of the cameras made were M6 ( of 1 or another version...)
> Taking half... 700K cameras is a fair guesstimate....even dividing that by
> half gives 350K M6 cameras made....
> 
> The M6 sold a LOT more cameras than the M3...
> 
> If you want real hard data, Erwin published a list of the M serial numbers,
> including the M6 in some detail....you could add it up..
> 
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at earthlink.net
> 
> 
> Leitz used to publish their production quantities but Leica Camera does 
> not.
> Pre Solms there are the following:- Leitz M6 about 30,000 (production
> continued by Leica Camera) M4P 22,444
> M4-2 16,100 (+100 gold plated...)
> M5 33,900
> M4 59,000
> M2 85,000
> MP 449
> M3 226,178
> 
> Interestingly the M3 sold about as much as the rest put together - so much
> for the myth that the M2 viewfinder was preferred, it carried over because
> it was -much- cheaper to make...
> To put these figures into perspective Canon sell about 250,000 digital 
> rebel
> SLRs per month.
> FWIW,
> Frank
> 
> ore information
> 
> 
> 
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