I'd sell my AE/SG combo if someone would pay me $2,500 for it!
Anyone?
Jonathan
Why don't you check those recent sales yourself?! They are indeed going for well over $1k, and over $2k sometimes as well!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Speed-Graphi...#ht_500wt_1182
SOLD for $2500
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pacemaker-Sp...#ht_500wt_1182
SOLD for $3600 (surprised myself about that one)
I'm surprised the one on ebay right now hasn't sold. As I suspected when I started fooling with these, I think there is a limited market for these. As stated, one can build this camera themselves with some time and effort...but some people would rather pay top-dollar and have it immediately. Not a surprise - that's the same thing driving up D800 prices on ebay right now. Anyway, perhaps the folks with the means and the want have bought their camera and now the prices will start to drop. I hope not personally.
Just post David Burnett videos and talk them up, it already worked with Verito lenses, Chamonix Sabres, etc. you'll stir up a few new buyers.
I notice that both cameras are from sellers in USA, and both listings come from *Bay/OZ.
Just an observation. I do sympathize for the folks down under.
Often seems that available selection of gear is a little thin, with many prices a tad high.
Marc
Oh that's just me searching on gear available worldwide, it isn't actually listed locally. You are right, there isn't much in the way of LF gear sold in Australia. I did a little more looking around at completed auctions and the prices for Aero Ektars alone are around the $500 - $600 mark, so by the time you factor in a mount as well as the camera then the cost to build is about $1000, and a $1500 starting price on an auction looks comparatively reasonable. It just surprised me that the prices had got this high since I assumed that this would all be old hat by now.
I don't have the strength in my wrists to hold my Pacemaker/AE combo any more. I found a fairly nice lens on fleabay for about $100 a few years back, Already had the SG Pacemaker which I had also purchased for about $125. I used a jury-rigged lens mount for a while and finally coughed up the money for Jo Lommen's mount. It was worth the money, and I still have a nice rig for under $400. I have to use a tripod, so I just focus on the GG and not worry about the rangefinder. I can still use the rangefinder if I have the other lens on board.
Michael Cienfuegos
ohh - something like that would never happen on a camera forum . If one were devious enough you could make some serious dosh stockpiling a certain lens/camera, talking it up for a couple of months on a forum (I would recommend RFF ), and then when everybody is whipped up into a buying frenzy unleash your stash.
I have tried to get a 7" Aero for a year now but I refuse to pay 6 to 700 for the lens.
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