[pure-silver] Re: Looking Forward to Film

Hi Aaron,

Use value is more important than market value. For example, I'm using a 1998 
Dell PC -- the first of the USB models -- and getting first rate service from 
it daily. It processes the usual digital images quickly, handles MS Publisher 
2003 like lightning, tours the Net like Superman, and has never disappointed 
me. It needs no replacement. Its Pentium II 450MHz processor juggles its 384MB 
RAM like a master performer. And it replaced W98SE with Windows 2000 Pro in one 
leap. 

As for the fall in value of the F5, the market is fickle. Film cameras 
constitute an irreplaceable aspect of photography which will become apparent 
over the next decade. I'll never abandon my film Leicas and Nikons. The best 
among us will still use them. There is no replacement of the negative. It's 
irreduceably photographic. 

Which reminds me, the NYT had a splendid article about Dusan Stulik, the Getty 
Museum's curator of chemical photography. We can punch it up from The NY Times 
of Sunday, April 1, 2007, Art section.

Best Wishes,
Bob 

Best,
Bob 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Aaron Reece 
  To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 11:57 AM
  Subject: [pure-silver] Re: buying photo stuff on ebay


  Justin:


  You may console yourself with the thought that you have had three years of 
additional use from your F5, which I hope has been worth $475 US or CDN to you. 
If you think this level of depreciation is bad try buying a new computer, and 
see how much it is worth in three years. 


  Best regards,
  Aaron




  On May 25, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Justin F. Knotzke wrote:


      Strategy on ebay depends on the item. I just won a nikon F5 for $325.  

       Please tell me this said F5 doesn't work and was run over by a 40 foot 
truck only to land on the train tracks and be run over by a locomotive..

       3 years ago I paid $800 for mine.

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