On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:52:55PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Leica seem to be having no issues selling all manual focus Leica M bodies and > lenses, Larry. They are the camera company with the highest growth rate in > camera sales by unit volume and profitability since 2009. :-)
I grant you that Leicas are good cameras, but they have one thing going for them that no other brand has, the snob appeal that goes with the red dot which says "I can spend $7,000 on a camera body, and the GDP of a small country on lenses". Just as the majority of Ferrari and Porsche owners have never taken a lap of a racetrack at speed, I'm willing to bet that brand status has more to do with the buying decisions of most Leica customers than their ability to use the superior performance of the cameras. Seriously, compare the mechanical design of the M-9 versus the Nikon D600. If they wanted to, they could could probably build one to sell for $2,000, rather than $8,000, but that wouldn't appeal to their niche market. A niche market which is undoubtably far more profitable than a bunch of middle aged curmudgeons who natter on endlessly about cormorants, puns and aperture simulators. > > Godfrey > > > > On Sep 26, 2013, at 12:11 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Because these days, to all intents and purposes you cannot sell a > > camera that isn't auto everything. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
