Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leica made about 220,000 M3s. Marty On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > The Titaniums were only a one off with just 500 made. Apparently a handful > of that handful are still available at dealers or a few get get traded > around after the initial purchase up by (presumably) collectors or for > anticipated profit. > > Something like 20,000 plus normal M9's sold so far to people that most > likely just want to use them and they have only just caught up with demand > now. The best selling M for a long time if not ever. I don't know about > M3,2,4 numbers in the 50's 60's etc but Leica Camera have sold nearly twice > as many M9's as M7, MP and M8 combined annually (12-13,000) while the M8 > was > in production. > > Cheers > Geoff > > *Life's not black and white, except at both ends* > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > > On 16 May 2011 10:34, mehrdad <msadat at gmail.com> wrote: > >> i would buy one for about 6~7k for the body only and no more. leica will >> have a tough time in this economy selling limited digital cameras that go >> outdated in about couple years >> >> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net >> >wrote: >> >> > In less than 1 minute, I found 8 Leica M9 Titanium camera outfits for >> sale >> > on EBay. >> > All new, all with price tags that are certainly out of my range. >> > >> > Purely amazing.... >> > >> > EBay.. your all purpose camera store. >> > >> > >> > Frank Filippone >> > Red735i at earthlink.net >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> ?------------------------------------- >> ?regards, mehrdad >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >