Originally posted by biz-engineer I'm comfortable even buying one more k mount apsc lens for $500, I consider it to be value zero after I use it for 2 or 3 years, but I can't imagine doing the same with $5000 lenses.
That seems kinda harsh. Unless you've got some crazy lens no one ever uses, things move here pretty easily. Local sales are harder but the marketplace here is pretty brisk.
Quote: For guys not interested to spend on heavy lenses, the spending is limited and as long as it's general purpose , you find a lot more potential users... I do not invent anything: there was someone selling a Pentax FA600 for a while... very hard to sell.
Are you speaking from experience here or just theorizing? Because if you're guessing, you're forgetting that the high-end market works a lot differently from the low-end market simply because the people who can spend that kind of money on lenses generally don't need to save money and thus aren't as concerned with lower prices. Let's face it: if you can't afford $5k for a lens, $4k isn't much better. Sure, $1k is $1k and that's nice, but if the DA560 would sell that better at $4k, that's where they'd price it. As it is, they may only move a few more lenses at $4k or even $3k than at $5k simply because there's a threshold there that most people won't exceed.
Furthermore, it's a big risk spending that kind of money on a lens with no warranty or return policy. As a result, I'd imagine those ultra expensive lenses skew toward new sales, simply because the people who buy them do not do so lightly (intend to use them extensively and keep them) and, well, the people buying these things don't look to the used market as much.
Conversely, at the low end, there's a lot more people who can say "$200 is much more affordable for me than $300 or $350."