Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/16

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Subject: [Leica] Leica prices (formerly M9)
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:10:48 -0400

Yep its more than just the green stuff.

Its the color of the gleam in you eye!

Mark

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Mark William Rabiner




> From: Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:08:39 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica prices (formerly M9)
> 
> Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> An M9 cost 7 grand now in 2011.
>> In 1975 money according to CPI Inflation Calculator that's
>> $1,666.64
>> Now what camera cost  $1,666.64 in 1975 I'm trying to think?
> 
> You're missing several parts of the equation.  You need to look at the 
> total
> cost of ownership: initial outlay, variable costs, maintenance, resale 
> value
> and time value of money.  Then there's the ROI side of camera ownership: is
> one camera more productive than the other, and how do you put a value on 
> the
> productivity?  For some of us the value of the productivity is easy: sales.
> For others it's the joy of looking at the results.  Hard to put a value on
> that.
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
> 
> 
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