Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/07

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Subject: [Leica] Re: KE-7
From: vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko)
Date: Mon Apr 7 13:14:48 2008

...cough....cough....sputter....Two hundred dollars?????

Oh, thank you guys, from the bottom of my pocket-book.  And for the sake of 
my wife and son's well-being, groceries, and ability to buy and wear new 
clothes....   :-)

I need to get over this fever badly, and quickly.  Maybe a large baseball 
bat across the forehead will do it.

Also, I understand that the 50/2 Elcan is not a great performer too, so no 
redeeming value to buy-and-try the lens.

One thing that scares the cr@p out of me is, what if I buy this thing, how 
am I ever going to get my money out of it again?  Sure, there's one born 
every minute, but how am I going to find him?  And are they never "female", 
so it immediately eliminates half the population?

Please all, keep telling me to "go out and shoot photos", "historically the 
KE-7A is worth the same as a share of <name your defunct company - Bre-X, 
NORTEL, ...>"

...Vick


>From: amr3@uwm.edu
>Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>To: lug@leica-users.org
>Subject: [Leica] Re: KE-7
>Date: Sun,  6 Apr 2008 23:01:44 -0500
>
>Quoting : "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net>
>
> > Just to make you feel bad.....
> >
> > I do remember that at the end of the production cycle, I saw new KE-7A
> > cameras selling for around $2K.  And gain, a few years later, when the 
>US
> > decided to rid themselves of the cameras, they sold for around $1K with 
>lens
> > , used, new in box.......as surplus......
>......................................................................................................................................
>To make you feel worse......
>
>In the 1980's, our department, through government surplus, obtained a KE-7 
>with
>50mm Elcan lens for about $200.  We traded it in for a more usable kit: two
>M4-2 bodies, a winder, a 35mm black Summicron, and a 90mm Summicron.  
>Before
>the deal, for fun, I took a self-portrait holding the KE-7 in vertical 
>position
>so the top plate engraving showed.
>
>Alan
>
>Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
>University Information Technology Services
>University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>amr3@uwm.edu
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>
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