Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1995/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]henk thijs wrote: > Lucky you, i do not know what is meant by 'shutterbug' prices, but generally > speaking, prices in europe are more or less the same over the different > countries: very high. Even the people who are selling their equipment > directly know the prices very well. > But my main concern towards the 'easy way of finding leicas against a reasonable > price ' is the thing of lenses; what about a 'normal' 28 mm , or a 60 mm > macro? I would say that the body is the minor problem, an M3 in a good shape > can be found around 650 dollar and the R3 even for about 400 , but the lenses > stays on a very high price level. Different in America ? I agree with you. I bought my R4s, that has been working fine since I got it, at a reasonable price (500 $). But for my three wonderful lenses (summicron 35/2, elmarit 90/2.8 and elmar 180/4) I paid a lot. Usually lenses can be bought with a little saving directly from privates. Markets are usually expensive and some shops have better prices. I've frozen my desire to own a leica M to a future richer time. cheers francesco ricci