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

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Subject: [Leica] Re: KE-7
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon Apr 7 22:57:21 2008
References: <1207540904.47f99ca8b82b9@panthermail.uwm.edu> <BAY113-F35D61C0A8DC047EE8349DD8CF30@phx.gbl>

Vick,
Take a cold shower.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Vick Ko <vick.ko@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> ...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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> >
>
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>
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Replies: Reply from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] Re: KE-7)
Reply from vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko) (Anyother way to spend $10K --->>> WAS: [Leica] Re: KE-7)
In reply to: Message from amr3 at uwm.edu (amr3@uwm.edu) ([Leica] Re: KE-7)
Message from vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko) ([Leica] Re: KE-7)