Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/16

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Subject: [Leica] Selling like Hotcakes....?
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 23:50:14 -0700
References: <027d01cc13cd$09e5f2b0$1db1d810$@earthlink.net> <C9F6FE56.EBD5%mark@rabinergroup.com>

They sometimes leave gaps when there are concurrent models to anticipate the
"filling up" by the older models.

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

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