Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1995/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, 13 Apr 1995, Patrick Sobalvarro wrote: > I can only talk about R lenses, but last summer when I was in Germany > I compared Leica R prices with a cousin-in-law. As far as we were > able to tell, on the used market in Germany one pays a lot more for R > lenses than we do here, perhaps 1.5 to 2 times as much. As an > example, I got a 28/2.8 in like-new condition for $600 from KEH; he > said the price in Germany would be at least the equivalent of $1000. > Everything is cheaper in the States. The dollar is greatly undervalued compared with the Mark and the Yen. You can usually buy tangibles with far few dollars than those currencies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gordon Banks N3JXP |"Reality must take precedence over public relations, geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | for nature cannot be fooled." --Richard Feynman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------