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Price of used 35mm equipment
WTF, is going on with the price of used 35mm equipment? I can not believe
that Nikon F5's, F4's, n90s's etc.. and associated Nikon f2.8 lenses and accessories are selling for so little. I mean come on I saw an F5 with MF-28 sell for $725.00!!! And that was after the seller reduced it twice. These are still current production $1500 - $2000 cameras. Also, f2.8 glass is many times half of new price. Makes me wish I had an extra grand laying around. |
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"The Spectre" wrote in message .. . WTF, is going on with the price of used 35mm equipment? I can not believe that Nikon F5's, F4's, n90s's etc.. and associated Nikon f2.8 lenses and accessories are selling for so little. I mean come on I saw an F5 with MF-28 sell for $725.00!!! And that was after the seller reduced it twice. These are still current production $1500 - $2000 cameras. Also, f2.8 glass is many times half of new price. Makes me wish I had an extra grand laying around. DIGITALLLLLLLLLL that's what. |
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Yep, film is a has-been. NOW, all of you Leica shooters, I'll be glad to
dispose of any of those crappy obsolete M2's through M7's. But seriously, one of the most balanced essays on digital vs. film (with links, etc) is this one, by Ken Rockwell: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/filmdig.htm Until they make decent digital cameras so that they are upgradeable, I will maintain that all digital cameras are disposable. I use digital gear, but it isn't an either/or situation. Currently digital is very transient/temporary, while I use Rolleiflex TLRs that are older than I am. Magazines still want 35mm and MF trannies, but only newspapers will touch my digital images. And daily work is a place where digital excels. So it appears still to be apples and oranges in comparison. -- Lloyd Online photo portfolio: http://www.geocities.com/lloydetc/photoart01.html "Nollite illegitimus contarere vos" "Clanger" wrote in message ... "The Spectre" wrote in message .. . WTF, is going on with the price of used 35mm equipment? I can not believe that Nikon F5's, F4's, n90s's etc.. and associated Nikon f2.8 lenses and accessories are selling for so little. I mean come on I saw an F5 with MF-28 sell for $725.00!!! And that was after the seller reduced it twice. These are still current production $1500 - $2000 cameras. Also, f2.8 glass is many times half of new price. Makes me wish I had an extra grand laying around. DIGITALLLLLLLLLL that's what. |
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"L Schultz" writes:
But seriously, one of the most balanced essays on digital vs. film (with links, etc) is this one, by Ken Rockwell: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/filmdig.htm I'm sorry, but that article is a ridiculous rant. He compares a shot from a nameless digicam to one from a 4x5 view camera that can only be used on a tripod. He says the best way to get digital images is from scanned film, but not with a cheap consumer scanner like a $10,000 Imacon. To get a really fair comparison between film and digital, according to him, you're supposed to use a $50,000 Heidelberg scanner operated by someone with years of training. Sheesh. Until they make decent digital cameras so that they are upgradeable, I will maintain that all digital cameras are disposable. True, but to many professionals, all cameras are disposable. I use digital gear, but it isn't an either/or situation. Currently digital is very transient/temporary, while I use Rolleiflex TLRs that are older than I am. Magazines still want 35mm and MF trannies, but only newspapers will touch my digital images. And daily work is a place where digital excels. So it appears still to be apples and oranges in comparison. Nah, magazines are printing lots of digital images too. It's obvious to me that film will always be with us, but will become more and more of a specialty medium. |
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"Clanger" wrote in message ... "The Spectre" wrote in message .. . WTF, is going on with the price of used 35mm equipment? I can not believe that Nikon F5's, F4's, n90s's etc.. and associated Nikon f2.8 lenses and accessories are selling for so little. I mean come on I saw an F5 with MF-28 sell for $725.00!!! And that was after the seller reduced it twice. These are still current production $1500 - $2000 cameras. Also, f2.8 glass is many times half of new price. Makes me wish I had an extra grand laying around. DIGITALLLLLLLLLL that's what. Yep. Someone yelled DIGITAL and all of a sudden there was a panic as if being caught in a Chinese fire drill. Nick |
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The Spectre wrote: WTF, is going on with the price of used 35mm equipment? I can not believe that Nikon F5's, F4's, n90s's etc.. and associated Nikon f2.8 lenses and accessories are selling for so little. That is PRECISELY why I chose to sell off all my film bodies when I did. Very soon you won't be ABLE to sell them at all! You may be able to give them away though... if you can find people still wanting them. Steve Kramer Chiang Mai, Thailand http://www.photoenvisions.com -- "The voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new horizons, but in seeing with new eyes." - Marcel Proust |
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"Steve Kramer" wrote: The Spectre wrote: WTF, is going on with the price of used 35mm equipment? I can not believe that Nikon F5's, F4's, n90s's etc.. and associated Nikon f2.8 lenses and accessories are selling for so little. That is PRECISELY why I chose to sell off all my film bodies when I did. Very soon you won't be ABLE to sell them at all! You may be able to give them away though... if you can find people still wanting them. If you still have a Contax G and a lens (any Contax G lens), I'll take them off your hands*. It would be amusing to own the highest resolution 35mm camera ever made just as a conversation piece. *: I might even pay you something if I can look at them first. You don't make it back to Japan occasionally, do you??? David J. Littleboy Tokyo, Japan |
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"David J. Littleboy" wrote: "Steve Kramer" wrote: The Spectre wrote: WTF, is going on with the price of used 35mm equipment? I can not believe that Nikon F5's, F4's, n90s's etc.. and associated Nikon f2.8 lenses and accessories are selling for so little. That is PRECISELY why I chose to sell off all my film bodies when I did. Very soon you won't be ABLE to sell them at all! You may be able to give them away though... if you can find people still wanting them. If you still have a Contax G and a lens (any Contax G lens), I'll take them off your hands*. It would be amusing to own the highest resolution 35mm camera ever made just as a conversation piece. Sorry, but I sold the Contax G2, the 21mm, 45mm, 90mm, and flash all as one package. Got almost what I paid for it all too! Surprised the hell out of me! *: I might even pay you something if I can look at them first. You don't make it back to Japan occasionally, do you??? We do come back once in a while, mostly for family matters, but we usually go to Kyushu. We still keep a 3LDK condominium (fronted by a bamboo forest and Zen temple...) in the Osaka area if anyone would like to buy that... ) Steve Kramer Chiang Mai, Thailand http://www.photoenvisions.com -- "The voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new horizons, but in seeing with new eyes." - Marcel Proust |
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Steve Kramer wrote in
: Sorry, but I sold the Contax G2, the 21mm, 45mm, 90mm, and flash all as one package. Got almost what I paid for it all too! Surprised the hell out of me! I recently sold my old ASA 1600 Canon F-1 with the usual brassing for a 30-year-old camera, 50/1.8 and 28/2.8 Canon lenses, extension rings, a couple of Vivitar lenses, related filters, a Nikon N-60 and a couple of other minor items to KEH and got considerably less than what I paid for them originally but considerably more than I had expected, particularly since Canon FD stuff is a dead end now. They did say that my stuff was in unusually good condition but even so I was surprised. A local place with a national presence on the US used camera market had offered me disproportionately less on the Canon stuff I took to them and that was a year ago. Since KEH is not a naive operation, I conclude that there is still a market for film equipment, at least if you are a dominant component of that market. I do expect that my current stash of bodies, including two F2 bodies, one N-80 and a Rolleicord Vb TLR, represent the end of my film days. The next body is likely to be what Nikon introduces as competition for the Digital Rebel, or some such thing. Perhaps when D-100 functionality gets well below $1000. - Shankar |
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Shankar Bhattacharyya writes:
I do expect that my current stash of bodies, including two F2 bodies, one N-80 and a Rolleicord Vb TLR, represent the end of my film days. The next body is likely to be what Nikon introduces as competition for the Digital Rebel, or some such thing. Perhaps when D-100 functionality gets well below $1000. That's called a D70 and should be out in a few months. |
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