Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Comparison of Leica SLR and Contax SLR Systmes
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 21:47:32 -0500

Dan States jotted down the following:

> The Contax is certainly a better value if dollars are important in the
> decisison.

I disagree.  If you take resale value into account, as well as longevity of
the equipment (such as lenses still working flawlessly after 50-40 years in
the case of Visoflex stuff) then Leica easily comes out on top.

M.

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