Hi,
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
> Doug Brewer wrote:
>>
>> Shel, you don't really think the old
>> Takumars weren't built to a price point,
>> do you?
> Right after I sent that I realized that, although I knew what I
> meant, I could have phrased it better. What I was attempting to
> say is that, in the past, there was only one grade of lens,
> appropriate for amateur and professional alike. Some were more
> or less expensive due to their speed, but essentially all were
> built to the same standard of quality and excellence. Now there
> are consumer grade lenses, lenses for amateurs, and lenses for
> professionals. The quality of construction and the quality of
> the optics differ between the grades of lenses.
it seems to me that this is A Good Thing. When you look at the prices
of Pentax/Takumar equipment in the 1960s and adjust for inflation they
were incredibly expensive. Certainly well out of reach of the average
person, so photography was essentially restricted to the rich or
highly enthusiastic. Having differently priced grades of equipment
certainly democratises the activity.
--
Cheers,
Bob
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