Sad Used Prices for EM-1 first edition

jwilliams wrote:

LoneTree1 wrote:

jwilliams wrote:

Probably one of the best buys in m43 right now is lightly used EM1 IIs going for around $800 or so. Fred Miranda is full of them. Probably people just dying to throw $1K to the wind to get the latest model.

I have noticed prices for m43 gear there are in a severe slump and often just never sell even at pretty attractive prices. Seems to be a flood of used m43 gear as people move to larger format systems.

There is a flood of just about everything in the photo world these days. The precipitous decline in the sales from nearly all makers is a good indication of that.

No doubt prices of everything photo related are down. The thing I notice most is a lot of the m43 gear for sale just does not sell at all regardless of price. Almost any FF mirrorless lens or camera put up at a reasonable price sells reasonably quick. Canon or Nikon DSLR lenses don't command great prices, but usually sell quickly as they can be readily adapted to their brands mirrorless offerings. m43 gear just has little to no demand. Wish it wasn't so as I'm going to sell some of my m43 gear.

I see room for all theories - it is just what works.

I could have sold my Canon EF 400/2.8L lens 10 years ago at a huge loss on the buy price when I decided that I was not going to buy any more dslr bodies.  For a while it looked like it might eventually become an orphan.  But I kept my last 5D dslr body working for many years afterwards - it was still making great images.  But then EF mount adapters started appearing - there was an adapting way out of EF mount dslr lock-step.  Unfortunately I was not particularly impressed with the A7R series 1.  But I gravitated to M4/3 and soon enough and EF lenses worked very well on M4/3 bodies.  Welcome to active re-purposing EF mount lenses.

Now with L-Mount I can again re-use my EF mount lenses.  My 400/2.8 is probably still worth more or less what it was ten years ago.  Therefore we might argue that the cost of keeping it has been nothing - only loss of the earning capacity of the funds tied up.

Or I could have sold it and used it as part payment on a Sony FE equivalent if such a lens had been made.  When I fell out of love with Sony - back on the blocks for the FE lens and now I would use the remainder as a deposit on a then non-existent M4/3 lens - there may even have been something close in 4/3?  Or I could have waited and plumped for the 300/4.0 from Olympus, but I did buy the 200/2.8 so maybe there was something freudian happening there ....

Now sell my Panasonic 200/2.8 at a loss and buy something for L-Mount?  Hardly.