You can pick up a nice IIIf or IIIc for $400. Add a Summicron 50/2
Collapsible for another $400 or so, and you have a highly functional
and quite beautiful camera.
Paul
(who shot almost exclusively with his IIIf RD and Summicron for a year
or so-- a great experiende)
On Nov 21, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Scott Loveless wrote:
On 11/21/08, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
You can pick up a functional M3 right now for well under $1000US. I'd
have to sell almost all my Pentax gear to get an M3 and a single 50mm
lens. And sometimes I think I just might do that.
--
Scott Loveless
New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA
http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/
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