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Subject: [Leica] Canon doesn't see it quite like Mark
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 03:06:20 -0500

Thanks I was looking for it and could not find it.
But I still don't have a nice list. Not so easy of a search engine find.


On 2/3/13 2:46 AM, "W. R. Smith" <wrs111445 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> You can add the Nikon 28Ti/ 35Ti to that list.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
>  From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 4:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon doesn't see it quite like Mark
>  
> Yes of course XA was not in the premium range. Most of the others though
> were. All of them I think.
> 
> 
> On 2/3/13 1:44 AM, "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm pretty sure I bought my XA new in 1985 (when I got married) for ~$90 
>> or
>> so. A few years ago, the rewind crank broke and I bought a replacement for
>> $50.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Frank I'm used to compact quality cameras costing a grand 20 or 30 years
>>> ago
>>> with a fixed lens as were a lot of people I knew. And the list of those
>>> cameras I've typed out a few times.
>>> The Minox 35 GT. Or Minox 35s
>>> Contax T. Rollei 35m, Olympus XA
>>> Those excited me and they excited a lot of people and we used them and 
>>> blew
>>> up the pix in our largest darkroom trays.
>>> That fact that they were not cheap did not freak anybody out.
>>> A camera with interchangeable? glass with a sensor the size of my pinky
>>> fingernail absolutely does not turn my head at all.
>>> 
>>> One of those cameras which were so valued by top people in lets say 1980 
>>> @
>>> $1000 =? $2,786.33 today.
>>> The exact price of the Sony
>>> CPI Inflation Calculator
>>> http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1000&year1=1980&year2=2012
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2/3/13 1:19 AM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Mark.. it is a $2800 camera with a fixed lens.
>>>> 
>>>> You could find a used M8 with 35 Summicron for about the same price.. 
>>>> and
>>>> the lens is removeable....
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe when it is discounted to $1K it will be reasonable, but not
>>> now.....
>>>> 
>>>> My $0.02.
>>>> 
>>>> Frank Filippone
>>>> Red735i at verizon.net
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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Replies: Reply from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] Canon doesn't see it quite like Mark)
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