09-27-2018, 08:09 AM
As soon as Leica get their hands on something we start talking new car prices!
My first SLR was a Zenith, a Zenith 3M with the 50mm F3.5 Industar...............I was young (believe it or not)........new it cost £13.19 shillings and six pence!!!
....... about 15 euros in todays money!..the best camera in the world........Ha ha...Yes really?........(I lie........second best ha ha...)
Now that Leica have their claws on Zenith we are talking 6,000 euros???
We'll be seeing a lot more of that with the Panasonic/Leica/ Sigma collaboration........
One thing that Leica will have to learn straight off the bat is, that only a small percentage of photographic folk will cough up mega prices just so they can parade the "red dot" ..........like they did with the re-badged V lux and D lux nonsense.........if Panasonic /sigma think they can jump on the Leica prices bandwagon they may be in for a shock!
For the rest of us we want reasonable value for money!!
My first SLR was a Zenith, a Zenith 3M with the 50mm F3.5 Industar...............I was young (believe it or not)........new it cost £13.19 shillings and six pence!!!
....... about 15 euros in todays money!..the best camera in the world........Ha ha...Yes really?........(I lie........second best ha ha...)
Now that Leica have their claws on Zenith we are talking 6,000 euros???
We'll be seeing a lot more of that with the Panasonic/Leica/ Sigma collaboration........
One thing that Leica will have to learn straight off the bat is, that only a small percentage of photographic folk will cough up mega prices just so they can parade the "red dot" ..........like they did with the re-badged V lux and D lux nonsense.........if Panasonic /sigma think they can jump on the Leica prices bandwagon they may be in for a shock!
For the rest of us we want reasonable value for money!!