[LRflex] Re: Was: No R solution. NOW: Numbers.
- From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@xxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:51:04 +0200
potential Leica solution is now so large that many
thousands of users must now be EX-users or even deceased.
Cheers
Douglas
On 29.09.2010 17:42, Steve Barbour wrote:
> On Sep 29, 2010, at 8:34 AM, David Young wrote:
>
>> At 12:36 PM 26/09/2010, you wrote:
>>> Nice comments, Bob, but I do have to point out that 100 R users on a list
>>> generated from poling a very limited and bias sample is by no means a good
>>> representation of the number of actual R users out there. By percent of
>>> readers of this group or the LUG I am sure it overestimates R use, but since
>>> I am sure the vast majority of R users are not on either list, it vastly
>>> underestimates the total R users out there.
>>
>> Aram:
>>
>> At present, there are 349 members of this list.
>>
>> In 2006 I as told by the then Leica President, Steven Lee, that Leica
>> estimated there were "about 2000" *ACTIVE* "R" users, worldwide. The
>> rest (and there are many) they figured were collectors, or former
>> users who'd moved on to other brands, but still had an "R" in the cupboard.
>>
>> The only "good" part of that assessment was to say that we "flexers"
>> are (or, at least, were - at that time) the largest group of "R"
>> users, worldwide.
>>
>> The problem is that Leica need to sell 20 to 30,000 cameras of any
>> one model, per year, to make production worth-while. With just 2k
>> users, the available market would be filled in 30 days or so! What then?
>>
>> It does not matter if there are, in truth, 100,000 "R" users out
>> there. If Leica "think" there are only 2,000 of us, they are not
>> going to go out of their way to full our market needs.
>>
>> My hopes for a "adequate R solution"
> They have an "adequate R solution"...
>
> it seems clear to me, that it is, to dump the system,
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
>> are fading, fast... no matter
>> what Stephan Daniels tells us.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
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