Film is hip, man. It's those damned YouTubers! Shhh. I'm buying Nikon lenses while they're still relatively cheap. I got a N8008s for $10 recently. Deals are still to be had.
Aren't some modern day plastics pretty strong.?However mechanical parts can be modelled and made on 3D printers (yes, metal 3D printing is a thing, although still expensive) or CNC (home CNC setups start at $200 or so) and lathes.
Mechanical cameras can be repaired essentially indefinitely, so long as you can get a part to model, you can continue to service it. They will simply increase in cost to repair over time.
Aren't some modern day plastics pretty strong.?
Couldn't a person have a 3D printer make a top or bottom plate, or a gear or lever...that was originally metal... and (for most applications) make a few out of plastic.?
They might not last as long, but if it saves the camera.....................
That can also be said of mixing one's own development chemistry from scratch or any number of esoteric pursuits on this site that we drone on about for years. This is just another arcane avenue to explore. Enjoy.While all this talk about 3D printing, such repair work is well beyond the ability of most people including people who read Photrio.
Excellent machinable plastics like Delrin and UHMW have been around a long time. But note that I mention "machinable". Little things like camera gears need to be not only durable, but dimensionally stable. Even ordinary brass is a miserable material. The brass used for die-castings is a specifically different alloy; and dies are very expensive to make. Hard to say what will be 3D printable in the future. Elon Musk is 3D printing re-usable metal alloy rocket booster housings; but he has a lot more money and equipment than the rest of us combined.
mean while...the average sales price of a well used Leica M6 has gone up another 10%.
indeed, what F'ing craziness is happening here?
feels a bit like the tulip bulb craze.
Have you checked M2s lately?
Have you checked M2s lately?
mean while...the average sales price of a well used Leica M6 has gone up another 10%.
indeed, what F'ing craziness is happening here?
feels a bit like the tulip bulb craze.
You have to wonder if the prices on the red dots will get so expensive that all the photographers who can afford them, or stupidly pay for them will all find themselves in a circle one day going "hunh.... y'all think we shouldd'a thought about this a little more?" and realize that the only people driving up the prices is themselves.
That may be giving the Leica snobs too much credit....I mean, some of these fools seem to believe that they are special-ed in proportion to the price of their gear.
You have to wonder if the prices on the red dots will get so expensive that all the photographers who can afford them, or stupidly pay for them will all find themselves in a circle one day going "hunh.... y'all think we shouldd'a thought about this a little more?" and realize that the only people driving up the prices is themselves.
Hold on, let me write this down. Customers' demand for something causes an increase in price. Got it.
I paid around $700 for a Leica M42 about 5 years ago. I was hesitant to buy it at that price, really. Then I got lucky and got a Summicron that wasn't scratched all to hell (rare) for around $500. That total price is still too much but I was fairly certain I could resell it and get the money back, if I needed to. I didn't expect I'd be able to get twice the amount back, five years later, but that's what it looks like. It's very tempting to sell it. Fact is, I don't use it much - I normally carry around a Leica III.
I used to buy cameras based solely on their resale value, and typically didn't buy anything that I couldn't at least get my money back on or make a little extra when sold. I'm cool with inflation and demand, and I understand that it's just a thing that will always occur. What I don't understand or care for much is the absurd thought that something like a Nikon FM is as valuable as the F5. You can get either for around $200. It doesn't make any sense. It's like paying for a pinto when you can afford the cadillac. There's no rhyme or reason to it. And if you've (generally speaking) paid attention to any of my posts, I like things to stay the same, without change, and always make sense - and that's just not the case in this particular instance.
Thankfully I believe I've turned the corner, and no longer look to the buying and selling game for creative satisfaction. In fact, I'm seriously considering selling everything I own except for the RB, and the F2. I find that not having any choices is much more enjoyable than having too many.
The majority of people don't need or even know about the greater capabilities of the F5 - why would they value it higher? In the meantime, they have had the FM touted as a perfectly good film camera to load up with Portra and take overexposed pictures of their naked girlfriends. .
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