i hope you're right but from this point of view its not just because research and development costs, though important and up there last financial year too. in my view it is a not enough selling problem and may stay here for awhile, at least in italy, though i understand from international media that it is a common situation wordwide and do not involve leica and photo field only. fg 2008/12/6 <wildlightphoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Philippe Amard wrote: > > >On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 12:04:03+0100 > >"FLAVIO GORI" wrote: > >> i suppose that other luxury (and not so luxury) brands > >>may be affected by > >> worldwide crisis.not a real surprise on this time. here > >>in italy we havea > >> very freezed market. no one is buying anything. even > >>foodstuffs markets are > >> down sharply, notto mention cars, dresses, shoes > >>markets. > >> how about in your countries? > >> > >> flavio > >> > >> > >Same here. We're all keeping our savings for the R9.2 D > >Ciao da Strasbourg > >Philippe > > > > Considering the development cost of the S2 (which will reduce R10 > development cost), no sales revenue from it yet, and the overall > re-invention of the company, a loss is neither surprising not necessarily > bad news. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > -- FLAVIO GORI NASA The Inspire Project European Coordinator http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/inspire http://www.LoScrittoio.it Edizioni in Rete Pictures: http://web.mac.com/fgori http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/iKlee/ http://flaviogori.googlepages.com/home