----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:15 AM Subject: Re: Photographers Still Using Film : Excellent! That is, I was having a really hard time getting my memories : to agree with your numbers; and I have no slightest reason to suspect : you're making up your numbers, and paper is more stable than memory : :-). And having it be Australian rather than US dollars is probably : enough to make the whole thing collapse into sense. : : Well, except the part about 35mm and MF costing the same for a basic : outfit, anyway. But the individual numbers I was getting hung up on : work out much better (particularly since the AD and USD have moved : somewhat relative to each other over the period we're discussing). well sorta - I sell when the aus dollar is down, buy when it's up ;) : > No, that is no typo - that's what we got charged here for such a lens. The price list confirms it. : > : : I meant the "3.8", not the price. you gotme ther! 2.8 (slap!) : > this is the one you priced compared to the Canon I listed above? : > : : The Tamron 300/2.8? I got that one used, in fact, for about $1k. The : Tokina 80-200/2.8 was in 1994, part of the move back to Nikon/move to AF : for me. I only listed Canon lenses, no aftermarkets .. except that 200-500 Tamron I love so much ;) : I started 35mm with my mother's old Bolsey 35 (rangefinder, fixed lens), : then bought a Miranda Sensorex with 50/1.4, traded that in a complex : deal for a big Pentax system (lenses from 28mm to 400mm! *Automatic* : flash!), picked up a used Leica M3 around the same time, had it all : stolen, started over with a Nikon FM (around 1980 now), went to Olympus : in 1987 for the multi-spot metering, then back to Nikon in 1994 for the : AF, then a digital P&S in 2000 and my first DSLR in 2003. : : The multi-spot metering was cool enough, but overall (and because : Olympus missed the AF boat and my experiments showed me that AF was a : win for what I did) the Olympus detour was not a big success. So maybe : I should have spent that money on MF equipment after all! you'd have loved it ! and given the prices now.. ;) karl
