jonoslack
Active member
Hi DavidJono, you may well be correct... only time will tell. Anybody remember that special edition Noctilux they brought out recently at $16k plus... it sold. Compared to that these lenses are a bargain On the other hand, conspicuous consumption is no longer considered cool. I read an article recently that net-a-porter, which sells very high end fashion items, now gives it's customers the option of having their goods delivered in brown paper wrapping. Think for a moment of the reception an S2 buyer would get on this forum. My guess is that he/she would more likely be ridiculed than envied... and not all of that would be sour grapes. The consensus seems to be that you'd have to have no regard for money to buy this system. Not an image many are looking to project these days.
there is a pretty clear difference between conspicous consumption and prestige. I don't think that anyone who has the financial clout to spend 50 grand on a camera system is going to give a damn about what people on a forum think (do you?).
As for the prices of the lenses. To my bitter regret I've sold a couple of Leica lenses over the last couple of years at sensible prices: I want them back now, and they've both increased in secondhand value by around 40%, who else can you say that about?
I have a small business (very small). When I look at the capitL expenditure we've made over the past year on stuff which is going to be worth nothing in two years.......
"value for money" simply isn't a factor with some products. Leica has always been like that.
You speak of the Noctilux. There was also the Safari and the white l
M8s. Both greeted with hoots of derision here, but I don't see anyone offering them cheap. Do you?
Apologies for typos. iPhone in car!