[stevebrot]

Be grateful that Pentax is not like Nikon. From what I've seen, Nikon film bodies, good though they may be, demand three or four times the price of a similar Pentax camera.

So true! That is the main reason I don't own an FM2 or FE2!!!


Steve

[stevebrot]

I think a Nikon F100 is much cheaper than a MZ S

A Cosina by any other name...

I think he was referring to Nikon's better cameras. A FM in decent shape costs about the same as a MZ S and is at least 3x what what the very similar Pentax KX will go for.


Steve

[stevebrot]

Wow, impressive collection!

And those are just the folders!!!

[panoguy]

The market is a wave - with different cameras / lenses going up and down at diffrent times. It all depends on supply and demand at the moment - heavy internet buzz will create demand, for example.

Yes, and I got carried away with the wave. I just bought a PZ-1p, which is the second film camera I've bought, with the intention of using, in the last 25 years (going back to a damnable Nikon N8008)! After spending the 90's scanning and retouching the (med. format) film of fashion photographers, I might just be far enough removed from that unpleasant history to have fun with film... ?

[stevebrot]

which is the second film camera I've bought, with the intention of using

Only two!? Pity...


Steve

[panoguy]

Only two!? Pity...

Hey, we weren't all born photographers!

[Nesster]

Hey, we weren't all born photographers!

Besides, we only have three eyes

[redrockcoulee]

A Cosina by any other name...

I think he was referring to Nikon's better cameras. A FM in decent shape costs about the same as a MZ S and is at least 3x what what the very similar Pentax KX will go for.


Steve

I think you are thinking of a FM10. A F100 is the film equivalent of the D200/D300 series. But look at the prices of F3/F4 they are less not more than a MZ-S. I have seen F100 on sale for less than 250. F100 was what is now called prosumer.

[Nesster]

Nikon folks are in their own universe when it comes to prices and their estimates of lens quality. That is, there seems to be a self-contained value system within the brand. We could say the same of Pentax and Pentaxians.... but due to the inherently smaller supply relative to demand, Pentax prices tend to find a floor...

I know I'm penny wise and pound foolish: I bought a Nikon FE (because it is lower in price than it ought to be, as everyone goes for the FE2 on up), simply because I wanted a f/2 35mm lens (Nikon's go for less than the Pentax equivalent; Nikkors are common as dirt while Pentax ones are cherished rarities)... and an 'affordable' quality 24mm (the Nikon Ai'd 24/2.8 again is commoner, plus the after market Ai'ing, made it quite a bit cheaper than a 2.8 24mm Pentax)... But by the time I got done accumulating common Nikkors (that often are rare Pentaxes) (105mm, essentially), I realized had I saved the money I'd easily have bought any two Pentax lenses I wanted.

[stevebrot]

I think you are thinking of a FM10. A F100 is the film equivalent of the D200/D300 series.

Ooops...you are correct.


Steve