[rollei_list] Re: Digital Advice

Mark,

Perhaps, but "cost effective" for Leica glass should be called "cost
expensive." At $5K I would not call that cost effective, but something that
enables people to use expensive glass with a newer expensive camera.
Cost effective would be to take the $5K and but A D40x or Digital Rebel and
2 zoom lenses that will do the same and pocket the difference in savings.
I am not preaching, but when someone tries to say it would cost $17K to get
a good digital setup I had to correct that. The investment in 6000 series is
fine, but at this point in time with film dying a quicker death than anyone
would believe on the list, it may be time to do some cost recovery and
jettison the older Rollei and Leica gear while you can still sell it for a
decent price. Just my two cents.
BTW, what are you doing in NY these days? Are you teaching?

Peter K


On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > But the M8 is a very expensive digital camera. So unless you have some
> extra
> > cash it may not be justified.
> > Much cheaper to buy a Digital Rebel, or for those with Nikon glass a
> D40x,
> > and use that. $700 is a lot less that $5,000.
> > Especially when you know the digital body will be obsolete in only a few
> > years, much different than when we had film bodies that would not be
> > obsoleted so quickly.
> >
> >
>
> Peter I'm talking about adding to a system not starting a brand new one.
> For someone with a full set of Leica glass as I have a digital body being
> expensive is not a surprise and is cost effective.
> Not quite for me though its just a little buggy and though I might be able
> to swing it I could not swing for sure the M8.3 which does not rely on
> cutoff filters in front of every lens.
> ... And has Auto ISO.
> I would then have ten grand worth of cameras. One which worked as I liked
> it
> too. And that's not my price bracket.
>
> But preaching to the Rollei Crowd here on this list many of these people
> are
> invested in the Rollei 6000 series and are used to spending thousands not
> hundreds on bodies and glass.
>
>
>
>
>
> ..................
> Mark William Rabiner
>
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