Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes but if someone gave you a million bucks and you got an M9 would you not also while you were out it get a few knick knacks to go with it like a spare battery or two and spare memory card? To not does not mean you're cheap it means your a bit short sighted to put it as nicely as possible. This is not an issue of economics but of pure common sense. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner > From: Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:40:49 -0600 (CST) > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Battery life indicator (M9) Cheapskates > >> On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:47:50 -0500 >> Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> >>> Do cheap-skates spend seven grand on a camera body when they can get >>> one for for seven hundred? > ============================================================================== > =========================================================================== > I must be a cheapskate's cheapskate. The most I ever spent for a camera > was > $2,000 USD for a mint Pentax 67with meter prism, and that price included > three > pristine lenses, a Sunpak flash, and a Lowepro camera bag, all without a > smudge on them. > The most I ever paid to buy a Leica was $350 for a used M3. > > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > UPAA POY 1978 > University Information Technology Services > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information