You can ask the same question about any Leica. It is essentially a
small production, hand made camera that has established a reputation
for consistent higher quality in their lenses and some of their
cameras(Those darned German electronics in the reflexes). Check the
scores at photodo.com and they pretty consistently equal or better
the so called legendary lenses from other makers with none of the
duds. They just seem to go the extra mile to make a fine camera. It
probably went through two dozen mockups just to make sure it felt
right in the hands. Tighter tolerances such as the pressure plate
being a magnitude tighter than those on the Japanese cameras. Milled
top and bottom plates. Black chrome instead of black paint. No rubber
grippy stuff that peels off like you see in the complaints in the
Nikon and Canon forums all the time.
For that matter there really was nothing inherent in the OM3Ti that
justified its final Leica like price.
Winsor
Long Beach, CA
USA
On Sep 15, 2006, at 11:38 AM, ScottGee1 wrote:
>
> $5600?
>
> A question for those of you familiar with manufacturing processes.
>
> Is there anything inherent to this new product that justifies the
> asking price of the M8?
>
> TIA!/ScottGee1
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