On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > If you assume the M3's cost when new was roughly equivalent to the cost new > of an M8.2 today - £3,990 - then it has cost about £80 per year, £1.60 per > week or 23p per day. That's not much for such a nice object. It's a lot less > than I pay for my lunch, which lasts about 5 hours.
I read somewhere that if one took the money equivalent of an M3 in 1953 (the year it was introduced) and invested it into a very conservative investment vehicle, that note would be worth many times the cost of a used 1953 M3 (unless of course there was some spectacular provenance involved). People complain about the cost of older M bodies and lenses, but considering that with proper maintenance they'll likely last forever, today's prices are pretty fair. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
