On 24 Apr 2014, at 23:03, "Mark Roberts" <postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote: > > Tim Bray wrote: > >> If I cared about timepieces, Rolexes would offend me :) > > Quite. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there were discussion boards > devoted to fine timepieces where Rolexes were indeed treated with > disdain.
One should distinguish between the thing itself and the price that people charge for them. In general, people don't criticise Leica Ms per se, and I imagine they don't criticise Rolexes per se, but their price. But you don't have to pay full price for them. If you have the gift for it, go into a shop and bargain them down. I tend to pay the full price for things because I'm hopeless at bargaining, but one of my brothers is good at it, and bought his Breitling for thousands of pounds below the asking price simply because he refused to leave the shop until they sold it to him for the price he wanted to pay. Remember that the shopkeepers want to sell these things, and their markup is enormous, but as long as they can get some profit it's better to turn the stock over than have it sitting in a box tying up their capital. B > > This is a photography mailing list! Of course we're going to discuss > our opinions of various cameras, regardless of price or target > demographic. > > For my part I'll say that touch screen controls on a camera are a > stupid idea. Give me tactile controls any day. In fact, every day. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
