Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyle Cassidy wrote >daniel bowden sez: > >>I brought in my three Nikon F3s, motor drives, and eight Nikkor lenses >>and swapped them for a new R4 and two second-hand lenses. > >ouch! leicaboy that i am, i can't believe this was a good deal. unless >one of the second hand lenses you got was a 300 2.8.... Friend Kyle . . . Way, way, way back when, second-hand Nikon F bodies and AI and AIS lenses were a dime--maybe a quarter on a good day--a dozen in New York. It wasn't that they weren't highly valued. On the contrary, everybody used them and that was probably the main reason for their relatively low dollar value. They were everywhere. And there were so many grey-market sources for new stuff, if you were inclined to go that way, that it was sometimes cheaper to buy new than used. Leica, on the other hand . . . . has always been Leica;-) By the way, I don't think there was such thing as a Leitz R lens over 180mm that was as fast as f2.8. The fastest R lens over 250mm was a 350f4.8 Or you could go with the 250f4 :-) Or, if you had a strong assistant, you could go with the 800/6.3. I have a vague memory of a Leitz promotion for that lens where, if you bought a new one, they'd give you a new VW beatle as a premium. But maybe that was a nightmare and not just a regular memory:-) Cordially Daniel Bowdoin