Mark Roberts wrote: > P. J. Alling wrote: > >> Well let's see. The M8 costs about $5.5K for a camera with roughly the >> same image capture specifications of an *ist-D, and the same resolution >> and sensor size of a Canon 1D Mark III. which you can get for around >> $3K. Based on this I'd put the Leica S2's street price at something >> like 2-3x the competitions street price, plus the the price of all new >> lenses, I don't think Hassy has a lot to worry about... >> > > British Journal of Photography says it will sell for about 20,000.00 > > That's pounds, not dollars. Ugh. They actually advertise new Hasselblad kits for just over half of that price around here.
I can to a certain extent identify with the people who will pay several times the price of your average SLR for the "craftmanship" of a Leica M, but an MF camera at twice the price of a Hassleblad makes a lot less sense. -- - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
