Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pascal, (whisper)"How about Nikon? How about Pentax? How about Olympus? They take a good care of old cameras, and the newer cameras can take the older lenses with or without a modification or an adapter..." ;-) Tom K. - ---------- From: Pascal [SMTP:cyberdog@ibm.net] Sent: Saturday, June 27, 1998 19:38 To: Leica Users Group Subject: [Leica] Re: spare parts inventory (WAS: CL vs CLE) On 25-06-1998 20:36 Raimo Korhonen wrote: >But of course Minoltaエs policy of keeping parts in the >inventory is different from Leicaエs. How about this: I wanted to sell an old but perfectly working Canon AE-1 body with standard 50mm lens, and found out the second hand shop didn't want it because they would have been unable to honor their 6 months guarantee on second hand equipment. Reason: Canon does not sell any more spare parts for their AE-1 (and I presume other A-series cameras as well), nor would they have any inventory left. And this camera was first made in 1976 and sold for many years thereafter. So, if your "old" AE-1 breaks down, you can basically throw it away. At the same time you may as well throw away your FD lenses (some of which are excellent), because they don't fit on any contemporary EOS body. Nice... What a difference compared to the situation at Leica. Something to consider when buying cameras :-) Pascal - -------------------------------------------------------- Check out: http://members.xoom.com/cyberplace/ - -------------------------------------------------------- Macintosh PowerBook G3 - it eats Pentium notebooks for lunch - -------------------------------------------------------- <<< PGP public key available on request >>>