---- Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > It's apparently going to be the price of a small car. So let's say it will > cost the same as a Fiat 500, which was the best small car of last year, > according to some poll or other. > http://www.channel4.com/4car/rt/fiat/500/2162/2 > > Taking the midpoint of the price range, let's say you're going to pay > £11,000 for the small object of your desire. Instead of buying the car, > which you can afford but don't want anyway - buy the camera! > > Now think of the savings. If you drive on average 12,000 miles per year, > that's 36,000 miles over the lifetime of the loan. At 50mpg you will need > 720 gallons of petrol, which is going to cost you about £3,500. That's > without taking into account depreciation vs appreciation, additional running > costs, tax, insurance and the price of bumber stickers. > > So buying a Leica M9 will save you at least £3,500 over 3 years. That's > enough to have Chas Roberts build you a custom, made-to-measure, handbuilt > Audax bicycle and still have some money left to buy Rapha cycle clothing. > http://www.robertscycles.com/products.html
Er, no. This is a Leica, so each and every file from its Germanic bowels is going to be a superlative jewel, worthy of printing at 18x24" - or whatever is the largest feasible size for the format involved. This is going to require a whole load of investment in computing and display power (£1000) storeage (£200 for high capacity drive and another £200 for one year of backups, including offsite location) printing ability (£1500 for printer and say £3000 for a year's supply of ink and paper) making the Fiat a much more sensible option. The only way the Leica is going to be cheaper is if you buy it and put it in a display cabinet........... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
