I A recent trip to Barcelona revealed two extremely well stocked photographic outlets with lots of classic film based gear and consumables along side their digital solutions.
ARPI can be found at the bottom end of Ramblas (Coast end). Do not be fooled by the small frontage. The entrance is at the side and there are 4 floors accessible by elevator.Do you happen to have the names of these outlets? I'm going to Barcelona next week.
Some prices are stable. Some are up. We may be just past the bottom point.
I'm glad I got my F3, F4, F5 & F801s/N8008s when I did.
These patterns seem to hold for me too. I'm a Nikon guy in 35mm. The lower-end stuff is definitely very cheap and not getting more costly at all. Conversely, there are a few bits of gear (the F5 body, the FM3a body and a few lenses, e.g. the 35/1.4) that seem to be going up in price.
I recently bought an F5 because they were so cheap and I could afford it. It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of other film shooters are taking advantage of opportunities like this to buy high-end gear, and liquidate low-end gear. If this theory is right, that would explain why low-end stuff is dropping and high-end stuff is going up.
I find excellent deals because I shoot Canon FD and FL. Prices are so low, it's just criminal.
But FD/FL glass can't really be used with digital, because of the very short register distance. You need to have an adaptor with glass in it or put the rear element INSIDE the camera body.
I use my Canon New F-1 with New FD lenses, and I know what you mean. But even for the FD/New FD lines, it is becoming very hard to get certain popular prime lenses such as 35mm F2, 85mm F1.8, at least in the Japanese market. At Yahoo Japan Auction, which is as popular as eBay to the Japanese, those lenses in good condition still go for 200-250 USD and never really come down.
I think there is something missing in this analysis, how compatible are the old stuff with new digital.
I find excellent deals because I shoot Canon FD and FL. Prices are so low, it's just criminal.
But FD/FL glass can't really be used with digital, because of the very short register distance. You need to have an adaptor with glass in it or put the rear element INSIDE the camera body.
Yes, the FD mount is discontinued, and that makes it pretty affordable, but there are also thousands of FD-compatible bodies in circulation, keeping up the price for some of the high-end lenses for which it would be worthwhile to acquire an FD body just to use one of those lenses like the 14mm/2.8L or the long teles for which it would be worth obtaining the rare FD-EOS adapter that works with lenses longer than 200mm.
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