Mike Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Yes, Leica prices are notoriously subject to the winds of fashion. The IIIg,
>because it was the last and considered therefore the "best" of the
>screwmounts, was for many years the preferred body of shooters who chose to
>keep shooting screwmount. So it was always more expensive. By now this is
>simply convention, carried along by the monkey-and-ladder effect. But to
>this day you'll pay as much for a IIIg as for a used M6. Silly, but there it
>is.

OK, I'll bite: "Monkey and Ladder Effect"???

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Mark Roberts
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