Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/02/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There are people with a huge amount of money in the bank who none the less buy what is a priority for them. They don't buy everything. But It would not have to be a high priority perhaps for them to afford many things. And there are people, photographers, who make not all that money but a camera of course is the highest priority item they have on their little list of more limited resources. I think for many of those a premium quality compact was/is high on their list. It was in the past Millennium with premium film compacts. Every pro I knew had at least one. And often had them with them. And used them. And printed the pictures which could make it into their portfolios. On 2/3/13 1:54 AM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net> wrote: > Best look at your prices again.... they were at most, several hundred, not > $1K. > Most of the cameras you list date to the 70's...... I own/ed most. > But that is all digression.... > > A $2800 one lens camera is really a camera for the collector or rich > oligarch, not the advanced amateur or pro. > > Again, my opinion. > > Frank Filippone > Red735i at verizon.net > >> Frank I'm used to compact quality cameras costing a grand 20 or 30 >> years ago with a fixed lens as were a lot of people I knew. And the >> list of those cameras I've typed out a few times. >> The Minox 35 GT. Or Minox 35s >> Contax T. Rollei 35m, Olympus XA > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/