Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan: I see one in use about five days a week. It's sitting on my tripod. For the record, the mamiya rangfinders do sell at a serious premium. A new 150mm 4.5 lens will sell for $1600, making it among the most expensive japanese lenses around. I know several people who use them, and most of them are comitted to them. If you like the M, you'll love a Mamiya rangefinder The Leica M6 isn't 5 or 6 times the price of a Contax or Pro Nikon or Canon. It's a high priced camera. Also, the potential market is much bigger for the M, even with one not exact competitor. SLR will fade away before rangefinders. It won't be long before mirror boxes are replaced with CCD pick-ups and monitors. Tom At 12:00 AM 2/13/98 -0500, you wrote: >At 10:25 PM 12-02-98 -0500, you wrote: >>Dan C., you wrote: <Nowadays, lets face it, the rangefinder is a relic,> >> >>Then how do you explain the Mamiya 6 introduced in 1990 and the very >>successful Mamiya 7 introduced just 2 years ago. >> >>Tom > >Mainly due to the format, and it's competition. Do you think the Mamiya 6 >or 7 would sell well if it sold for 5 times what a Mamiya RZ or Hasselblad >costs? And besides, are they that successfull? I have personally never >seen either camera in use, not that this means anything ;-) > >Dan C. > >