Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/14

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Prices may not be artificially high
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:01:53 +0930
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The ZM 85/2 is discontinued, and is no longer listed here:
http://lenses.zeiss.com/photo/en_DE/products/ikon/distagont2815zm.html

I think the high price resulted in poor sales.  It would be
interesting to see how many they made.

Marty

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> 
wrote:
> There are a couple data points: the two Zeiss ZM lens that are made in
> Germany, the ZM 85/2 and the 15/2.8 are both listed at $3500-$4500, a
> striking distance within the Leica's. So really I guess you pay for what 
> you
> get - which is tight tolerance, high quality stuff.
>
> Besides, even the high end Nikon and Canon bodies are priced at 
> $6000-$7000,
> and in theory, most of the R&D there are funded by the lower priced bodies,
> not the high end ones.
>
> FWIW
>
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