But I'm not sure there is a bubble; just a healthy second-hand market. Most of my lenses were bought for around half the new
price, somtimes two thirds in the case of scarce lenses (I'm talking about modern Pentax AF lenses. The M lenses cost much less). I think that's reasonable. If prices for current lenses in very good condition fall below half the new price, then there's something wrong.
John
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:51:55 +0100, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4/22/05, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Exactly. It's the cameras that have created the demand for the lenses. If desirable products continue to come, lens prices will remain high. What we're seeing now is partially due to a big swing from P&S to DSLR. Pentax probably developed some brand loyalty with their numerous and successful P&S cameras. Those people moving to DSLR created a demand for lenses. This won't be as great a factor in the future, but the current sales have already depleted the supply of out of production lenses, so prices for those should remain fairly high. Paul
While I don't doubt that what you say is true, there are certainly many factors at work here.
Who knows how many there are out there who owned K1000's and ME's and several lenses, but lost interest in photography years ago, and put the kit away. Affordable DSLR's revived that interest, and upon finding out that their lenses will actually work on the *istDs, it was a viable choice.
I'm sure that there are many who simply bought a *istDs based on it's price/quality ratio - yes, it's a bit more than a DigiRebel, but the difference in feel and apparent solidity is obvious. Hopefully, a competent salesperson would sell the Pentax on (among other things) backward compatibility, reminding the customer that very high quality manual focus Pentax glass is out there at a bargain price.
cheers, frank
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