Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jayanand, I agree with your assessment of Leica and the luxury goods market. I was really writing to contradict the notion that Leica will somehow make a prominent showing in the professional journalism trade. That isn't the market that Leica is targeting and these days working journalists can only fantasize about the halcyon days of silver process photos in the news, carrying two or more camera bodies with fixed focal length lenses. It just doesn't work for all but several very senior handfuls out of tens of thousands of working journalists the world over. Phil Forrest On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 07:40:03 +0530 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > Phil, Douglas, > As someone with over 35 years experience of analyzing company > behaviour, I would say that none of us represent the market that > Leica are targeting nowadays. Simple fact. I am not saying what they > are doing is wrong, in fact I think their focus is absolutely right. > Do you think they can survive on what we all collectively buy new > every year? No, it is the oligarchs that keep the company in the > black - be grateful for the clueless. In that sort of luxury market, > unfortunately, the end sale prices are directly related to what the > market will bear, and not to the costs involved. With their finite > resources, I doubt that they can handle the costs of R&D and > marketing in too many different niches. Cheers > Jayanand > > On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Phil Forrest > <photo.forrest at earthlink.net>wrote: > > > On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 02:46:05 +0100 > > Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> wrote: > > > > This is what I and others have been saying for a few years. > > > > > Bring out an alternative that offers the reliability > > > that used to be promised and fulfilled by Leica - and > > > seemed to disappear after the M4 - and I'll buy it like > > > a shot. > > > > > > Cheers > > > Douglas > > > > > > Phil Forrest > > > > -- > > http://philipforrestphoto.wordpress.com/ > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/philforrest > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- http://philipforrestphoto.wordpress.com/ http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/philforrest