Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mike Johnston wrote: ><Snip> > If you look at it that way, the "cost" of using Leica M gear is really > pretty absurdly low. It would be very cheap right now for newcomers to > try an M6, for instance. You can get users for $1300-$1500 and they're > just not going to lose very much value--they may even gain value. A > $1400 used M6 bought today is certainly not going to be worth $450 in > three or four years, which might be the case with a new Wunderplastik AF > 35mm. "Try an M6 for a year for free"--sounds like an ad campaign. > > The only way it costs a lot is if you keep it, but by that time it's > painless, because you've already parted with the money--and you've > already decided it's worth it to you to keep. > > --Mike Sounds like you are "Catching on" Mike but I can't see how a Hasselblad CM would be a bad investment. I got mine 5 years ago for $500 and it is a classic cube with a mirror in the middle which does the job. (Previously I only had an ELM which is limiting) I needed to get an Acumat screen for it for another $250 which Hasselblad replaced for free when i washed it with the wrong stuff like a moron. But it fits most of my Hasselblad toys which add on from all sides of that cube especially the front (the lenses)!. Mark Rabiner