Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just sell your car and F5 and take out a small loan you will be all set ;-) Those prices are ludicrous. I can buy a Contax 645 with zeiss lenses for the price of those two and get a neg nearly 3 times as large. Geeeezzz. I hope Leica wakes up one day and realizes their prices are insane. Peter K - -----Original Message----- From: Eric Welch [mailto:ewelch@neteze.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 9:04 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Motor Driver R8 sometime around 12/15/99 4:49 AM, Rick Floyd at rick_floyd@hotmail.com was heard to write: > The elmarit is $3055.00 and the Summicron is $5395.00. I must really be > under a spell because I read Erwin's report of these two babies and all of a > sudden I'm looking at things I can sell to finance this habit. So far > though, my wife has drawn the line at her and the kids.... Well for that person asking for lower lens prices, the Summicron used to sell for $7,000.00 - -- Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.neteze.com/ewelch Zen master to hotdog vendor. "Make me one with everything."