Any know the future price of M8 or M digital?

[ruiespanhol]

Hello everybody,

Is my first post on this new forum.
This forum reperesents the most changes Leica can made now and in the future more changes maybe will come out I think.
Now I would like to know if any menber of this forum know or listen somewhere the future price of Leica M8? digital?
I hope the price came near to the 3500 Euros maybe 4000...

Regards,

[nemeng]

Best guess at the moment is $US 5000 (in the USA) and @ 4500 Euro (for Europe).

No one is prepared to go on the record though.

[Dirk Van der Herten]

It is advertised in Belgium for 3.900,00 euro.

http://www.fotorembrandt.be/content/4513/site/?id=3756

[lll]

Leica representatives told at the Forum meeting three weeks ago, that the price will be "significant below 5000 Euro" - not below 4000!

Friedhelm

[marknorton]

I don't believe fotorembrandt for one instant. I emailed offering to buy at that price and they never came back to me.

It's not surprising. We expect a US price of $4995 + tax which corresponds to £3250 including VAT or about €4700 including tax, depending on the VAT rate.

Our Belgian friends are not bargain-basement. They're advertising an R-D1 for €2850 or £2000. I bought one at Robert White for £1350. So there's no reason to suppose they will sell at significantly below the market price.

Easy to advertise the camera for that price when it hasn't even been launched. Another thing entirely to sell the camera at that price after it has been launched. Forget about it!

[Trevor Hare]

If you need to ask the price.....

[john_r_smith]

At £3250 it still looks like a very good deal compared to the DMR, because you get the whole camera, not just a digital back. It puts it in among the higher end SLRs from Canon and Nikon, which is about right, but significantly below digital "medium format" offerings from Hasselblad and Mamiya. Provided that the build quality and image quality live up to the Leica name (and there is no reason to suppose they won't), the only issue they will have to deal with over time will be the 10MP sensor resolution, which will be perceived as outdated quite quickly. As we all know, the megapixel race is to a large extent a load of old hooey, but it can kill sales. This is what happened to the Olympus E1, which is now being remaindered at less than half price, despite still being a perfectly good camera.

John