Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chris has some good points. As long as the camera is not broken, what you bought 5 years ago will do as good a job as when it was new. Nothing changed. ( example: Leica M6... it still takes pictures.) What does change is the owners needs and wants. You want more pixels. You need more pixels. The market wants/needs/ more pixels or just plain pixels. This last is what really makes your Leica M6 worth less in time. You want AE. You want Pixels. You want more pixels. Wants. I bought a used Nikon D1 camera for $250. New, it cost about $5,000. New was about 8 years ago. Does it still take 2.5MP pictures? Yes. Does it still take Nikon lenses? Yes. Why did it go down in value? Marketing needs and wants. My D1 is considered obsolete. So what? It does what I want and precisely what it was originally made to do.. It did not change, the market changed. An M8, if it is not broken, will always do what you bought it for. Nothing more, nothing less. So what if it is worth $250 in 8 years....... ??????? Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net The question for we Leica users is where would we put our money on the price-durability trade-off curve? To put it another way how much money are we willing to right off every year? If you bought a M8 what did you expect it to be worth in 5 years? Chris B