Most that you ever spent on One camera Body?

[Sonnar Brian]

> Not counting collectible cameras...

Fair Enough. i would have added an Over $100,000 category.

I found a receipt at work for a Beckman and Whitney framing Camera, capable of 1.6Million Frames Per Second on a strip of 35mm film. It used a Helium Turbine to spin a mirror. The receipt was from 1960. It was for $120,000. It was an SLR.

 

[Thardy]

Rollei 6008I kit cost me $4000 in 1999. Of course the lens is very expensive on those cameras.

Coming in second and 3rd would be Canon 20D and Leica M6 TTL.

 

[Fraser]

When I went freelance in the same day bought a Canon 1d and a 400mm 2.8 cost me £9999 which is $16,694 thats quite a lot.

 

[jmkelly]

Timely thread - puts in perspective that $7k+ so many are thinking of plumping down for a new M9.

Most expensive new body: ZI for just under $1,200
Used: R-D1 for just over $1,600

Average, inflation-adjusted, for everything in current use: just over $450

 

[Roberto]

Bessa R2A... and I'd do it again absolutely nice camera

 

[nobbylon]

my D700 which I have had with me every day since I bought it.

 

[oscroft]

£2,070 for an EOS 5DII, but I did pay around £1,000 for a Bronica ETRSi in 1991, which is probably more once inflation is accounted for.

 

[NIKON KIU]

I had to choose the $5000 answer, it wasn't for a Leica either...

Kiu

 

[OurManInTangier]

Around $7000 on my D3, though it went through the business, I had thought I'd be spending that again on a backup D3....thank goodness for the D700!

That was also when it was around the two dollars to the pound mark...seems like a long time ago now!

I'm glad I wasn't working when digi first came in, I remember seeing the prices of those Kodak bodies when I was still at college and thought I'd never be able to afford anything like that even if I did manage to get work as a photographer.

 

[dimitris]

$1200 for a used Canon 1Ds MKI.

 

[le vrai rdu]

150€ for a bessa R

 

[schaubild]

A question I really want to forget about

 

[hamradio]

$450 for a refurbished Nikon D80. Next up would be a Minolta SRT101 for $9, and a Yashica GSN for $5.

 

[CK Dexter Haven]

$2900 :: Canon 5D
$2800 :: Canon 5DMkII
$2250 :: Hasselblad 203FE
$1750 :: Leica M7
$1300 :: Nikon F6

 

[Mongo Park]

Mint used M6 TTL for US$1,500 earlier this year.

 

[DGA]

US$1,480 for an M6TTL + US$200 for flare-free optics install by DAG.
I regard both as a single payment.

 

[Turtle]

$7,895 for a M6 0.72 Version 1 from that well known epay reseller. It was rare according to the seller, because it had no plastic film on the base plate like they normal do It was either that, or getting the even rarer 0.85 TTL for another two grand.

 

[sar-photo]

I paid £1600 (US$2600) for a mint Ebony 45S a few years ago. The only new camera I have ever bought was a Canon EOS1V - can't remember how much that cost me.

Simon

 

[wlewisiii]

Most I've ever spent was $400 for a Leica CL. Since then the most I've spent is $250 for a Leica IIIf.

William

 

[mark-b]

I spent 5 grand on the M8. Would gladly go for the M9, but as you know, we had to bail out wall street.