[Leica] Leica Stores in Hong Kong

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

To be fair you get Leica in Cathay Photo as well - they are Singapore's
equivalent of B&H.
Cheers
Jayanand


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:45 AM, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

>
> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 04:14:03 +0800
> From: David Ching <davidhhching1 at yahoo.com.sg>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG Digest, Vol 51, Issue 238
> To: "lug at leica-users.org" <lug at leica-users.org>
>
> The first official Leica store in Singapore is in the exclusive Raffles
> Hotel, the other two in another 5-star hotel and ION, a high street
> shopping centre on Orchard Road.
> The locations of these three stores speaks for itself the kind of market
> Leica is targeting. Things have obviously changed when celebrities were
> used for the launch of the inaugural store in the hotel which was named
> after the founder of colonial Singapore. It's really for the rich and maybe
> diehard pros. Actually never met a pro today in Singapore or Malaysia or
> anywhere in this region who uses Leicas exclusively for assignments. I read
> that Ming Thein loves his Leicas but uses Nikons for real work.
>
> And the new M is unlikely to change the scenario here. Perhaps the West is
> different.
>
> David Ching
>
> Hi David,
> In Hong Kong the Leica stores are in IFC II - (where the most profitable
> per square foot Apple store in the world is located), Times Square in
> Causeway Bay ( some of the most expensive commercial real estate in the
> World)
> Ocean Center in Tsim Sha Tsui (ditto for real estate expense) and at
> Terminal 1 at the Hong Kong airport. They are all decorated in Black and
> Leica Red with glass cases and mandarin speaking staff. I never shop in any
> of the stores and pass by
> the store in IFC II on almost a daily basis when I am in Hong Kong. I like
> the back street camera stores where I have shopped for many years and can
> chat, fondle and bargain a bit.
> Howard
> PS:  Maybe 15 years ago one older accredited photographer used  a Leica
> film M for wide crowd shots at the Hong Kong Rugby 7's while hauling a
> Canon Slr with a huge white lens on it for rugby action.
> Haven't seen him the last few years. Maybe he has retired. That was the
> only professional use of a Leica that I ever noted in HK except for last
> year when a young photographer showed up with an M9 and the now nearly
> standard
> Nikon Dslr with the big black zoom on it.
> Howard
>
>
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