Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One of my many regrets in life is passing up the opportunity to buy a brand spanking new M4 with 50 Summilux, for about $600 Canadian. Of course this was back in 1969, and 600 bucks was worth a lot back then, but I DID end up buying a Minolta SRT-101 with 58/1.2 for about $300. If I had just been able to get my father to lend me the extra $300...... By the way, the problems start when you already have 2 M6s, and then some wise guy on the LUG starts talking about a new black paint LHSA for only $2795... ;-))) Dan C. At 09:20 AM 02-03-00 +0000, Mike Johnston wrote: [smip] > >I could have bought an M3 when I was in Photography School for >$400-$600. Its value would have even kept up with inflation since then. > >If you look at it that way, the "cost" of using Leica M gear is really >pretty absurdly low. It would be very cheap right now for newcomers to >try an M6, for instance. You can get users for $1300-$1500 and they're >just not going to lose very much value--they may even gain value. A >$1400 used M6 bought today is certainly not going to be worth $450 in >three or four years, which might be the case with a new Wunderplastik AF >35mm. "Try an M6 for a year for free"--sounds like an ad campaign. > >The only way it costs a lot is if you keep it, but by that time it's >painless, because you've already parted with the money--and you've >already decided it's worth it to you to keep. > >--Mike > > >