Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/30

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Subject: [Leica] M8 problems/Deals
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (amr3@uwm.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 30 07:36:49 2007

Wed, 29 Aug 2007  Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote:

> I suggest you put your money where your mouth  is...
>or better yet, buy one of my own beautiful, previous M cameras from me,
>at a really great deal...
..................................................................................................................................
Thinking about deals, I bought my M3 + 50 Collaps. Summicron, used, 34 years 
ago
for
$325.00.   It is still my most used personal camera, and I shot with it in my
job for years also.
Counting the two CLA's at about $100 each, it cost me $15.44 a year.

I guess I'm a marketer's nightmare.  My Olympus SLR's were the last serious
cameras I bought new, back in 1982, and now they don't get used as much as 
the
M3, IIIf, Rolleiflex, or the Nikon F that my uncle gave me before he passed
away.  I did spring for a Canon digital ELPH S200 in 2003, but after a 
while, I
went back to the more responsive Olympus XA for slipping in a pocket (that XA
was bought used, from a friend for $35, and I made at least $500 on stock 
photo
sales  with it).

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University Information Technology Services
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Office Phone: 414 229-6525 | E-mail: amr3@uwm.edu
Department Phone: 414 229-4282
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/






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