Well, this made me think about how much I paid for my MX. In 1979, I paid just under a £100 for a body and a 50mm f1:1.7 lens. Looking at current prices for a mint MX, as my original is, would £200 be a fair price today?
Now, I have had the pleasure of using it over the years, but had I decided to keep the £100, and put that in a building society account, would that have reached £200? OK, the digital camera is making in-roads into the film camera market, and will continue to increase it's market share. For camera users, this is probably a bad thing and a good time, if so inclined to move into digital. For a collector of cameras, wow! what an opportunity. If the Leica prices fall further, I'll be tempted myself - I'd like a display piece for the main reception room :-) Malcolm > > I've seen prices for some Leicas falling rather precipitously lately, > although there may be more of a correlation between that and the release > of the new M7 and the Voigtlander models and lenses, if there's any > correlation at all. Leica has come out with a digital camera of sorts: > http://www.photim.com/Infos/UneInfo.asp?N=548 although it's not anywhere > near as full-featured as the new Canon or Nikon. > > Nonetheless, it's clear that the affordable, useable, digital camera is > just around the corner <sigh> > > -- > Shel Belinkoff - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
