Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/27

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Subject: [Leica] do not sell a Leica lens
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:02:13 +0530
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Well, I presume that the 3k went into some other investment that over the
years has delivered many times the return a Nocti would have.
Cameras/lenses are lousy investments - they are great pleasure givers,
though.

So, from an investment point of view, you are usually much better off
selling that lens now and buying it back when you need it! Even a usually
somnolent investment like gold has given 3x over the last four years.....

Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Dennis Kushner <dennis.leicam6 at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Doug is right. All the "cheap" Leica lenses I bought years ago are
> worth much more. Wish I would have bought that 3K Nocti.......
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > ==On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Richard Man <
> > richard at richardmanphoto.com
> > > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > I sold a few lens, including a couple to pay the bills. Those are the
> > sad
> > > > ones. Otherwise, the only regret I have with selling the Noctilux or
> > the
> > > > Tri-Elmar is that I could get a lot more money for them now :-)
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Agreed.  When I was freelancing, I had a pal who gave me great advice.
> > > "Always remember.  Get good cameras, because sometimes you have to eat
> > > them."
> > >
> > > I had a very tasty Noctilux, that fed us for a couple months, but it
> > would
> > > now feed us for several months.  *sigh*
> > >
> > >
> > Been there, ate that.
> >
> > --Bob
> >
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