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Subject: [Leica] Canon doesn't see it quite like Mark
From: wrs111445 at yahoo.com (W. R. Smith)
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 23:46:03 -0800 (PST)
References: <CAF8hL-E+8EmsLzcYJLi-YupEE4JzdR4isVBtt=qhsc29LZiy8Q@mail.gmail.com> <CD337DD9.4AB3%mark@rabinergroup.com>

You can add the Nikon 28Ti/ 35Ti to that list.




________________________________
 From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> 
Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon doesn't see it quite like Mark
 
Yes of course XA was not in the premium range. Most of the others though
were. All of them I think.


On 2/3/13 1:44 AM, "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:

> I'm pretty sure I bought my XA new in 1985 (when I got married) for ~$90 or
> so. A few years ago, the rewind crank broke and I bought a replacement for
> $50.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Frank I'm used to compact quality cameras costing a grand 20 or 30 years
>> ago
>> with a fixed lens as were a lot of people I knew. And the list of those
>> cameras I've typed out a few times.
>> The Minox 35 GT. Or Minox 35s
>> Contax T. Rollei 35m, Olympus XA
>> Those excited me and they excited a lot of people and we used them and 
>> blew
>> up the pix in our largest darkroom trays.
>> That fact that they were not cheap did not freak anybody out.
>> A camera with interchangeable? glass with a sensor the size of my pinky
>> fingernail absolutely does not turn my head at all.
>> 
>> One of those cameras which were so valued by top people in lets say 1980 @
>> $1000 =? $2,786.33 today.
>> The exact price of the Sony
>> CPI Inflation Calculator
>> http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1000&year1=1980&year2=2012
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2/3/13 1:19 AM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Mark.. it is a $2800 camera with a fixed lens.
>>> 
>>> You could find a used M8 with 35 Summicron for about the same price.. and
>>> the lens is removeable....
>>> 
>>> Maybe when it is discounted to $1K it will be reasonable, but not
>> now.....
>>> 
>>> My $0.02.
>>> 
>>> Frank Filippone
>>> Red735i at verizon.net
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photography
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
> 
> 




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