timbedsted1234 Posted July 11, 2006 Share #1 Posted July 11, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hello, You can apparantly no worder the M8 for just €3.900 It should be a runaway seller atr that price point:D See here: http://www.fotorembrandt.be/content/4513/site/?id=3756 Cheers, Tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 Hi timbedsted1234, Take a look here €3.900 for a M8 Wow!. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
andybarton Posted July 11, 2006 Share #2 Posted July 11, 2006 What's that in real money? £2700? Someone has something wrong. that's only £700 more than an M7... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
starwatcher Posted July 11, 2006 Share #3 Posted July 11, 2006 http://www.leica-camera-user.com/showthread.php?t=429&highlight=fotorembrandt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbedsted1234 Posted July 11, 2006 Author Share #4 Posted July 11, 2006 Andy, Exactly:p if Leica can pull this off it will be a real seller and in some sense we shouldn't be surprised. It will contain much less mechanical parts --> the expensive stuff It would not price itself out of the all important American market Cheers, Tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted July 11, 2006 Share #5 Posted July 11, 2006 Question #1, is rembrandt a "real" Leica dealer and not a gray market guy? Comment #1: since I have been beating the dead horse that the M8 has no expensive shutter and so on and should therefore be chaper, and since I have been getting beaten up for this position, will this dead horse run in the rembrandt stakes only, or is this a real price for a future? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
burkey Posted July 11, 2006 Share #6 Posted July 11, 2006 According to our friends at Google. . . € 3900 = 4980.69 U.S. dollars If this is correct it's pretty much what we expected in US dollars. 'Not sure about the conversion. Does this sound correct? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
etanguero Posted July 11, 2006 Share #7 Posted July 11, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) According to our friends at Google. . . € 3900 = 4980.69 U.S. dollars If this is correct it's pretty much what we expected in US dollars. 'Not sure about the conversion. Does this sound correct? for the gray market = yes. for the real market = i fear "not". eT Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknorton Posted July 11, 2006 Share #8 Posted July 11, 2006 Oh please, this is old news. How can any dealer offer to sell the camera at any price when it's not even launched yet? I contacted them more than a month ago wanting to order a camera providing they would honour that price. Did they reply? Of course not. Forget it. The price is more likely to be €4500 including typical European tax, $4995 + US tax, £3250 including UK VAT. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
timbedsted1234 Posted July 11, 2006 Author Share #9 Posted July 11, 2006 Burke, €3.900 is with VAT included, so you need to subtract 16% So €3276 and 4172.34 USD. Bill, I am with you all the way, the 3 things which cost money on the M8 is 1. the camera house 2. The sensor 3. The optical viewfinder /T Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ade909 Posted July 11, 2006 Share #10 Posted July 11, 2006 This is good news. A few people on the forum have said that they've already put their name down for an M8 with their local dealers. I'm assuming that they paid a deposit of some sort - in doing so did any of them get a definite price from their dealers? Does it compare to Rembrandt's? I guess if not, we might not hear from them (!!) but I'd be interested to know, especially from those in the UK. Ade Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
etanguero Posted July 11, 2006 Share #11 Posted July 11, 2006 Burke, €3.900 is with VAT included, so you need to subtract 16% So €3276 and 4172.34 USD. Bill, I am with you all the way, the 3 things which cost money on the M8 is 1. the camera house 2. The sensor 3. The optical viewfinder /T the hand colouring of the bodies letters ... that costs money. eT p.s.: oder 'ne costum made M8: http://www.summilux.net/m_system/m8-summilux.net.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted July 11, 2006 Share #12 Posted July 11, 2006 Uh, it still needs a shutter, doesn't it? The film transport is probably not very necessary, though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknorton Posted July 11, 2006 Share #13 Posted July 11, 2006 This is good news. A few people on the forum have said that they've already put their name down for an M8 with their local dealers. I'm assuming that they paid a deposit of some sort - in doing so did any of them get a definite price from their dealers? Does it compare to Rembrandt's? I guess if not, we might not hear from them (!!) but I'd be interested to know, especially from those in the UK. Ade The price from Rembrandt is not real, I tried to place an order, they never replied. Forget it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucemcl Posted July 12, 2006 Share #14 Posted July 12, 2006 The price from Rembrandt is not real...! On the other hand, this digital M is definitely real.http://minox-shop.payworxx.de/index.phtml?cmd=buy&id=205& Real ___ (you may place your own description in the blank) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimF Posted July 12, 2006 Share #15 Posted July 12, 2006 The price from Rembrandt is not real, I tried to place an order, they never replied. Forget it! In English Mark, or what? Maybe they don't speak our lingo - not everyone does surprisingly enough. Even if you talk loud and slow!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
etienne_werner Posted July 12, 2006 Share #16 Posted July 12, 2006 Here in the Netherlands, a very well respected camera shop is taking orders. Their price expectations , without vat is €3000. http://www.minderman.nl/fr_aanb.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest flatfour Posted July 12, 2006 Share #17 Posted July 12, 2006 It doesn't seem to matter what the price is, the first two year's production will be sold out and they will soon appear second-hand at $1000 dollars more. Oh well I shall just have to wait till the graph turns downwards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknorton Posted July 12, 2006 Share #18 Posted July 12, 2006 The key word there is "Prijsverwachting" - "Expected Price", but that is all down to how realistic their expectations are. That figure of €3000 would put it at only €130 more than an M7 and about €1300 less than a DMR without a camera to attach it to. You may be right, it would be good if the camera only cost £2500 incl VAT or $3800 + tax. I'd be surprised though. On a separate note, I notice Leica Berlin are offering €100 off any uncoded lens which neatly covers the cost of putting one on if you want it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted July 12, 2006 Share #19 Posted July 12, 2006 Being cynical, the lower the 'expected' price, the more deposits they'll get to put in the bank and earn interest on ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizard Posted July 12, 2006 Share #20 Posted July 12, 2006 Just to clarify one issue, of course the M8 (or however it will be dubbed) needs a shutter. What I know is that the camera will get the R9-metal leaf shutter. What I do not know is whether you still have to manually cock the shutter (which is what I would expect) or whether there is an electric motor taking care of the cocking operation. Andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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