karl shah-jenner wrote:
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From: "David Dyer-Bennet"
: karl shah-jenner wrote:
: > The estimated costings in the course literature gave prices people could expect to spend each year on photo gear - it was the same amount for all three
: >
: >
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: Do you think that's still true now? I don't have a collection of old
: prices at my fingers now, but I have very clear memories of studying
: those prices every month for 30 years, and I couldn't afford to get into
: medium format, it cost multiple times what 35mm did for a basic outfit.
from what I see here (or did when I last looked) yes.
In the second hand market, we see this reflected in repuatable shops:
a fuji gx680 (drool!) with a 180mm and a 250mm costs $2200
a hasselbad 500cm body is $500
an EL/M bosy is $250
a Canon 1V body is over $1000
a Canon AE-1 $250
but it must be a country thing is as you say, us prices are multiples of dollars more than 35mm prices
Used MF gear has come down a fair amount it looks like; but at this
point giving up the digital capture would be too painful for me. Plus
the cost of a medium-format scanner, and learning to do wet-mounting
(shudder).
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