Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]sometime around 12/15/99 10:41 AM, Martin Howard at howard.390@osu.edu was heard to write: > And if $5395 is insane for a 180/2.0, B&H quotes the following: > > Canon 200/1.8 $4159 > Contax 200/2.0 $7099 > Nikon 200/2.0 $4625 (manual focus) > > Reality check for Contax, anyone? ;) Martin, the Contax used to be $12,000 until Contax owners balked. That was when the 300 2.8 Tele Apo Tessar was $25,000. Now it's a measly $14,000. Talk about insane! - -- Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.neteze.com/ewelch Zen master to hotdog vendor. "Make me one with everything."