Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/29

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Subject: [Leica] M7/MP only 5% of US Leica Sales...
From: red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:22:48 -0700
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I guess there are more than 1 way to look at things.....

The M8 and M8.2 are basically not a different camera, only the M8.2 has a
few differences.....none of which I thought were worth much.... YMMV.
The M8 is now selling for around $2500-3000.  New or demo or used.

I do not covet a M8.2 more than an M8.  To me, the M8.2 is  not
significantly different to be worth anything more.....

So I compare the M8 to the M9.... and yes, It might be worth another
$1500..... more than a current M8.....for the FF sensor, 
But another $4.5K??????  Not to me.....

As I said, the difference in cash would buy (just about) you a 21or 24
Summilux.....


Frank Filippone
red735i at earthlink.net

That's the wrong line of thing. Think M9 as $1500 over the price of then new
M8.2. Clearly, the improvement from M8.2 -> M9 is worth that much. Nikon
D700->D3, Canon 5DII ->IDs all carry higher premium so Leica is doing pretty
well there.

Now the question is what should a then new M8.2 be $5500?

The answer is the new MP and M7 are $4500.... so the $1000 is, once again,
not bad.

So why should a new M7/MP be $4500?

Because they take Leica lens, and if you like rangefinder, what choices are
there? (this is a rhetorical question, I know about the Bessa and the ZM...)


Right now M9 has a backlog of 3-6 months (!) I suspect a good number will go
on the used market in ~2 months.

My guess is that by Sept 09, 2010, you can pick up a used M9 for $5500.





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