Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lawrence: >Leica's proposed prices are not too far out of line. At the end of 1954, >I bought a new Leica M3 with an M mount Elmar lens for under $300. At an >annualized price increase of 6% a year, corresponding roughly to the >average inflation rate, the same camera would cost about $5000 today. Nobody is going to sell many film bodies for 5 grand apiece, regardless of how it relates to the rate of inflation. Leica's competitors are other camera manufacturers...not a graph on a page in the Wall Street Journal. I'd say $3k for a professional film body is out of line when everybody else is charging $2k. -- Eric http://canid.com/