nd then basically all AF SLRs, which score a zero on aesthetics/hipness.
35mm has gone up a little bit, but the big price increases are on medium format film cameras ...
... Other medium format film cameras also have gone up ...
Im glad I got my cameras when I did ...
Not sure about that. As I mentioned earlier, a Nikon F100 in EX+ condition was going for $440 earlier this week. I bought one in EX+ condition from KEH in 2010 for $199.
In practice, do you mean more consumer AF SLRs? If so, I can see that being the case.
Physical shops bought from estates and sometimes (depending on demand) would actively advertise looking for used gear. But most preferred to make money on two transactions, having customers who would trade in equipment towards a new purchase and make money reselling the trade-in (like car dealers).But they can buy the market where direct sellers sell empty.
Brick an mortar camerashops also bought cheap and sold expensive, but at least they did not actively bought anything on the market, they bought when people brought their gear in.
Most millennials are in their 30's now and in their peak earning years.
You must be an artist or musician.As a 37-year-old who's never made more than $38,000 in a year, I deeply resent this term!
Worse...teacher.You must be an artist or musician.
Worse...teacher.
The people who teach our children, take care of our sick and elderly, and prepare our food, are treated terribly. It's a huge problem, people can't afford transportation and a place to live.Worse...teacher.
What camera are you looking/lusting after?Worse...teacher.
I really don't want to let this thread get hijacked, but we pay ridiculously low taxes compared to the rest of the industrialized world and in return we get mediocre education and expensive health care.We are treating them quite well by paying huge taxes. Unfortunately, they go to the wrong pockets. It would be more correct to say "they" and point a finger at specific state/government. Also, a teacher can mean many different professions. This quick search reveals a different number, at least for public school teachers. Not extravagant, but the difference is significant.
We also get crumbling infrastructure, filth, and vast corporate giveaways (corporate socialism) to favored industries.I really don't want to let this thread get hijacked, but we pay ridiculously low taxes compared to the rest of the industrialized world and in return we get mediocre education and expensive health care.
It's the piss-poor allocation of funds, not that we pay high taxes. Lobbying, political favors and corruption leach funds from needed services and institutions.@Pieter12 That's a myth which you can disprove for yourself with 30 seconds of thinking and some googling, let's not hijack this thread indeed. But if you want to see where your taxes go, at least for California, let me present your our platoon of $500K/year police captains. Find me an "industrialized nation" where a police captain takes half a million dollars a year from taxpayer's pockets. Or poke around. You'll find a $1,000,000/year prison dentists, professors banking over a million at public universities, and then tell me again how we "underfund our education". We have an unprecedented degree of looting of public funds happening, yet the uninformed continue to believe we don't pay enough.
@Pieter12 That's a myth which you can disprove for yourself with 30 seconds of thinking and some googling, let's not hijack this thread indeed. But if you want to see where your taxes go, at least for California, let me present your our platoon of $500K/year police captains. Find me an "industrialized nation" where a police captain takes half a million dollars a year from taxpayer's pockets. Or poke around. You'll find a $1,000,000/year prison dentists, professors and football coaches banking millions at public universities, and then tell me again how we "underfund our education". We have an unprecedented degree of looting of public funds happening, yet the uninformed continue to believe we don't pay enough.
Seriously what the heck does all this have to do with the price of Medium Format Gear?
A chicken in every pot, a medium format camera in every home.Seriously what the heck does all this have to do with the price of Medium Format Gear?
Don't wonder why people avoid this site.
What camera are you looking/lusting after?
Well, if you are going to wish, wish big! Good luck!Makina 67 please! More realistically, a GS645S and GW690.
Yes, back to the subject. I received a lens from Japan yesterday, minty as they say, price was high, but when you are buying something that was $3000, 20 years ago it's cheap. Early 2000's I was able to buy a Hasselblad 501C, they were all black, 80CB lens, 150 CF, 2 backs, WLF, 45°prism, $1100 ! This was during the great flush. Pros that wrote off the equipment, and adopted the pixels.A chicken in every pot, a medium format camera in every home.
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