Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Geoff -- you're right, I completely forgot about Cosina, and I've got a Bessa R3a sitting here! But I'm predicting what might happen in the future to M prices. Robert On Dec 27, 2010, at 7:44 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > Robert the current used market prices don't really support your > growing > value hypothesis for film M's at least for most models. Simply based > on demand. Not so for most M lenses though and for the same reason. > Also Mr > Kobayashi of Cosina might disagee with you on the availability of > film M > cameras of the metal, manual, mechanical kind too (in that small > niche)! > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 28 December 2010 11:10, Robert Meier <robertmeier at usjet.net> wrote: > >> There is another factor that has intervened to break the pattern you >> describe: the digital revolution. Very few Leica film cameras >> are still >> made and no other film cameras, at least, the metal, manual, >> mechanical >> kind. So there is a finite number of film Leicas and their value >> in the >> future will grow as the number of people desiring them grows. It's >> impossible to predict future value, but the new circumstances >> might well >> mean that their value will increase more rapidly than it has in >> the past. >> >> Robert >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information