[LRFlex] Re: New or used
- From: "Robert Palmieri" <rpalmier@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:28:24 -0500
All -
Been out-of-town and out-of-touch for a bit; I'll be catching up with
activities on this list over the next few days.
Regarding David's inquiry, pretty much all of my stuff comes to me well used
and therefore well depreciated.
I just had occasion to shoot a coupla snaps with another one of Doug Herr's
widefield castaways, a 24mm Vivitar. Initial peeks through the dreaded 30x
microscope look very good to me in terms of sharpness. Flare suppression is
also quite good. I'm not looking too closely at distortion, field curvature of
close-up performance. Color balance is distinctly different from the usual
Leica look, however.
Scans will show up next week when I get my new digi-darkroom together.
Bob Palmieri
>>> dnr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 07/15/04 11:02 AM >>>
About the 28mm Tamron f2.8, Alex wrote:
>I have one of these somewhere in SL mount, and it's a pretty good lens. If
>it's really cheap, it's probably worth buying. Seem to remember that David
>Young had one too.
Actually, I had the 24mm/f2.5 and it was both decently made and a
remarkably decent performer. Not to Leica standards, of course, but
certainly up to the standards of Rose's Pentax, which is pretty good!
Of course, the 21mm/f4 SA that replaced it is FAR superior.
The best part was that I'd bought it used, rather cheaply. It was destroyed
in Bangkok and my insurance company brought me a brand new one. I was able
to sell it for most of the price of Doug Herr's user 21SA. :-)
Of course, this brings up the debate as to whether Leica lenses are truly
worth the extra that they cost. Personally, I say 'yes', but I suspect that
most of the world would day 'no'. In fact, comparing the sales figures of
Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Minolta etc., to Leica's sales figures; I'd say they
already have!
So, we know that all here like Leica and obviously think they ARE worth the
extra. But, how many of us buy *new* Leica stuff?
Personally, everything I own (except the R8 the insurance company bought me
to replace my R5) was bought used.
What say we do a quick poll...
What percentage of Leica gear do you buy used or new?
Everybody?
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