Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]dominique pellissier wrote: > Maybe am I too "dogmatic" in the sense I put my faith in CDI' s tests and > I'd better buy the tri-elmar and compare it to my summicron 35. > But a tri-elmar is very expensive (18000 FRF or 3000 USD) and when I see ads > such as : "for sale tri-elmar as new", I ask myself : why do they sell this > outstanding gem bought 18 KF and resold only 11KF ? Why do they accept to > loose 7KF ? For the same reason so many M6 are for sale in CI adds. People don't know how to use it, or don't want to take the time to know how to. > As you know the second-hand market for Leica products is bigger than the > market for new products. Why ? Same reason. Or maybe because they last longer ? ;-) By the way there are much more Nikon for sale. ;-) > I don't think there are Leica lenses under the average. If it was the case, > Leica would be a pretty bad manufacturer ! It happen to every manufacturer. That's life. Lucien