Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Friends, The M6J is a different camera than the M6. It's by far more stable, more quiet (more pleasure, BTW). And it has been produced in a limited series (1640 pieces made, numbered individually, yyyy-nn, yyyy for one production year of M Leicas, nn is a number out of 01 .. 40, 40 complete years(= 41) times 40 numbers makes 1640 pieces, add one or two pieces with 0 numbers made for Leica's own museum). (Mine is 1966-30, BTW. I've got a M6 chrome, this M6J and a M4 press/military with reinforced winding mechanism. M6J and the special M4 are even, head to head in the smoothness competition, far ahead of the "ordinary" M6. Really great cameras; I've paid a fortune for them - - but I don't feel sorry about it. In fact, I'd do it again ...) The fact which makes it outstanding from the crowd of "Bruckner"-type Leica models is, that it's a technically outstanding camera, which combines the goodies of M3 and M6. It's really a pity that so many of them will sit in boxes at collectors - and never will go out and take photographs ... Original price was somewhere starting at 10.000 DM (and more ...) with lens (also numbered); 8000 US$ sound like a good price to me. As the M6J was _not_ just another M6 with special engraving I'm pretty sure that Leica _lost_ money on the sales of the 1600+ M6Js. (They got that money back several times by increased M6 sales, be sure.) HTH and have a fine day Hubert > Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 18:08:55 -0500 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net> > Subject: Re: Price for M6J Leica > Reply-to: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > At 03:21 PM 17-02-97 -0500, Richard Clompus wrote: > >Dear List, > > > >If I wanted to purchase a mint condition M6J Leica, what would the going > >rate be??? > > > >I never thought about purchasing this camera - but then again it may be > >better than just getting a second M6 body. > > Tamarkin has a new one listed at $8000. A mint condition would probably be > close to this value. A shame that it is so high, considering that it > probably didn't cost Leica that much more to produce than a regular M6. > > Dan C. > > * Von/From: HUBERT NOWOTNY, CTR Hatzenberger & Nowotny OEG * A-1040 Wien/Vienna, Kettenbrueckengasse 16 (Austria, Europe ...) * Tel ++43-1- 586 20 22 - 0, Fax ++43-1- 586 20 22 - 24 * hubertn@ctr.co.at, http://www.ctr.co.at/ctr/