Leica TV Clip - Making MP & M7

Awesome. I'm very impressed with the rangefinder and lightmeter calibration procedures. And that woman was lightning quick apply the leatherette. It took me 30 minutes each to get griptac on my M's.
 
Nice video, thanks for sharing. I wonder if visitors to Solms get a tour of the clean-room or assembly facilities.
 
My wife is from Northern Portugal, so I will tell her every time I buy Leica I am helping her homeland!

May help with those more expensive items!!!
 
awesome vid... i like how they ask some hard questions
100 to 150 cameras a month, if they make let's be optimistic, $1000 per camera, that's $100k to $150k a month or $1.2M to $1.8M a year. kinda thin don't you think? yes i know there are lenses too and digitals etc.
 
FA Limited said:
awesome vid... i like how they ask some hard questions
100 to 150 cameras a month, if they make let's be optimistic, $1000 per camera, that's $100k to $150k a month or $1.2M to $1.8M a year. kinda thin don't you think? yes i know there are lenses too and digitals etc.
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I would not define $1,5/1,8M of net margin thin.. but maybe it's me.
 
Yes, thanks much for posting this video.
Personally, just about any product that requires a hand held soldering iron to manufacture gets a free pass from me. :D
Interesting body language/response from the Leica rep when the commentator said you might want to stock up on film and developer.
What with all of the mechanical bits and the intensive manual labor required I’m amazed that they’re able to produce and sell them in numbers to be profitable.
 
On second thought, I don’t see why Leica doesn’t make their own marketing videos promoting the labor intensive manufacturing processes involved in producing Leica camera and lens products. Seems like a no brainer. :confused:
 
At 100 pieces per month, I can't see them holding on for long. But I imagine you'd only need one assembler (even though we saw two in the video) working 10-12 days per month. (assuming about an hour for each camera) I'd like to have seen more of the room in the video to see if there were any other workers and what they were working on.
 
George S. said:
At 100 pieces per month, I can't see them holding on for long. But I imagine you'd only need one assembler (even though we saw two in the video) working 10-12 days per month. (assuming about an hour for each camera) I'd like to have seen more of the room in the video to see if there were any other workers and what they were working on.
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that's not including all the work done in portugal too
 
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