Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/29

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Subject: Re: R vs Zeiss lens prices
From: creadick@mindspring.com (Nowell Creadick)
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:03:37 +0900
 
>>Working on the assumption that R lenses are as good as, if not superior
>>to M glass, I tallied up the cost of the 1 body, 6 lens system that I
>>wanted.... about US $20,000.  Groan.  My only alternative was Contax,
>>and a similarly configured system came to about $10,000 -- half the
>>price of the Leica R system.

Just curious..why would you not consider good used equipment?