Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Supply and demand. On 7 Mar, 2010, at 14:01, Frank Filippone wrote: > It is true that for a short period of time, the Dollar was half the value > of > the Euro at its bottom. That is a comparison of peak to trough. But > over > the same 10 years time, time, the current ratio is more like 50%...... > Which > components, and services, and equipment are purchased in the US or other > countries that make that "simple" 1:1 comparison of > old" lens prices compared to todays price be untrue? ( A fact: Glass > blanks > from Japan are up roughly 30%) > > As much as we would like to use off-the-cuff and simplified math ratios for > the explanation, it simply is too simplistic and in total fact, untrue. > > A simple truth is that they can get it..... from some segment of their > total/desirable/perceived market....and that at that price point, they are > sold out. > > I have said this before.... the best time to buy a Leica Lens, new, is when > it first becomes available for sale... after that, the price goes up.... > never down. > > So Mark, if you really want that 24 F1.4 lens, best spend your money > today... tomorrow the price will go up, yet again...... > > Frank Filippone > red735i at earthlink.net > > > This is mostly because your currency value has almost halved over the same > period. > > >> My 35mm Summicron ASPH in February of the year 2000 cost me $1495. >> A nikon lens at the time cost what 300 dollars? It cost $319.95 now so >> maybe it was 200 usd. So you could get five to eight of them. >> Now a new Summicron ASPH cost 3 grand; the price has doubled. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information