The Barnack is now an *expensive* historic novelty, Paul. ;-) The Audi vs Mercedes thing is interesting … Far as I've seen, ten year old Audis are often too expensive to repair and keep running, seldom seen on the road, while there seem to be a LOT of perfectly healthy 20+ year old Mercedes on the road all the time around here.
Happily, my SLK is 14 years old, still has fewer rattles and shakes at 140,000+ miles than my brand-new Toyota Prius did in 2006, and it was actually pretty inexpensive when I bought it in 2012, far less than the Prius was when I bought it. Actually, selling the Prius in 2012 @ 70,000 miles paid for the SLK and put money in the bank besides. Quality and durability costs money to buy but pays you back in the long run. The fact that few people keep a car long enough to obtain this kind of value is their problem… Same goes for cameras, I suspect. G On Apr 26, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > Well reasoned. I like my barnack Leica, but it's a historic novelty rather > than an expensive showpiece. Mercedes makes some nice cars, but you pay extra > for that star. Audi delivers more for the money, but no red dot, er star. -- 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.
