M3's aren't going to be affected by digital. They're 40 year old mechanical bodies with no meters. If on-board meters, ttl metering, auto-exposure, auto-focus, etc, hasn't brought the prices of them down, why would digital? <vbg>
Personally, I'd love one, though. But, for the difference in price between one of those and an early M6 (maybe a non-ttl one?), I'd pony up the extra cash for the latter.
LX prices do seem to be coming down a bit, though. It was hard to find one for under $600US until recently. Several have gone for around $500US or even as low as $400US.
cheers, frank
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From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Used LX Pricing in Europe Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 21:37:40 -0500
I looked at Leica M3s today on ebay, hoping I could find a bargain. Nothing for less than $600. That's not exactly tumbling. Ditto the prices on Pentax 6x7. There are no LX near the top of the list right now, save a broken body with no finder. That one is at $188 with 16 hours to go. I know the Pentax folks just bought their digital cameras in the last few weeks, but that didn't change the whole photographic world. Remember, everyone else has been buying digitals for a couple of years now. Prices are about the same as they were before the *ist D -- believe it or not.
On Thursday, November 6, 2003, at 08:51 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wholly Mackerel! It gathered 25 bids and still only got up to �112?
Hard to believe!
Yes, I hope a PDMLer got it too!
Mine cost me 4 times that much (!) and I still think it was a reasonable price...
Yep. Prices on cameras are tumbling.
-- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
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