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From: phr@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Paul Rubin)
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Subject: Re: why are contax mounts cheaper from mail order places?
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Date: Sun, 12-Jan-86 04:41:30 EST
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Summary: thanks, but that answered the wrong question.

I wasn't asking whether it was cheaper to buy lenses for a Contax
through mail order than from local stores; I wanted to know why it
was that, when ordering lenses through the mail, one can often find
lenses in Contax mounts significantly cheaper than in other (say,
Nikon) mounts.

The idea of recommending Yashicas as starters was so that the new owners
could take advantage of this price differential when buying lenses.
After all, it's the same lens (right?).