Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Most of those Chinese buyers are not photographers; China's artists, professional photographers, and journalists cannot afford this stuff, they're poorer than their American counterparts. I think its a damned shame that Leica continues to spit in the face of PHOTOGRAPHERS. If they want to make luxury shit, they should drop cameras and make gold watches and overpriced purses. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-437-8990 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 Become a fan on Facebook On 5/10/12 10:23 PM, "Akhil Lal" <alal at poly.edu> wrote: >Hi Chris, > >Leica will only make a few thousands, at most tens of thousands a year of >any item. Believe it or not there are more than enough people out there to >buy every lens they can make, and for many years to come. In this age we >need to look at the global not local picture. There must be hundreds of >thousands of millionaires in Asia alone now. Remember the balance of >wealth >is shifting East, and China is Leica's largest market. If expensive goods >do >not sell in a part of the world experiencing recession and/or economic >decline, they will surely sell in booming economies. It has always been >thus >and will continue to be so in the future. > >It is shameful that matters have got to this point, but as recent economic >and social policies have shown the 7 buck an hour wage earners no longer >matter, and not just in respect of camera sales. > >Regards, >Akhil > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: lug-bounces+alal=poly.edu at leica-users.org >[mailto:lug-bounces+alal=poly.edu at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Chris >Crawford >Sent: 10 May 2012 15:28 >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Monochrome > >This thing is so far outside the realm of even remote possibility for me >that I frankly don't give a damn. What is Leica going to do when all the >old >people who have money because they began working before the $7 an hour >economy was foisted upon their children have died, leaving the >impoverished >young who simply cannot even consider such equipment, no matter how good >it >is. > >-- >Chris Crawford >Fine Art Photography >Fort Wayne, Indiana >260-437-8990 > >http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio > >http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! > >http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Crawford/48229272798 >Become a fan on Facebook > >ore information > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information