[Leica] Return to photography

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

Welcome and kudos to you for going reentering the club with the M9 at  
87.

Completed auctions of M6 TTL, on the auction site,
show a wide range of actual selling prices:
from $1,350  to $2,500, depending on whether .85, .58, .72 finders,  
as well as condition;
as well as more than a few not selling at all within that range.
The M6 TTL market appears very erratic at the moment.

You could expect to get offers of $600 - $900 from stores and dealers
(they usually pay roughly half the market value)
depending on whether you were looking for cash or trade.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
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On May 8, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Herbert Kanner wrote:

> After after between 60 and 70 years of amateur photography and  
> darkroom work, I burned out about five years after fulfilling a  
> lifetime ambition and acquiring a Leica M6 TTL. I had always done B  
> & W but on returning from an eight-year stay in England in 1980, I  
> decided to start color processing. First, printing Kodachrome  
> slides. Then, realizing that if my object was to end up with  
> prints, I should switch to color negs, I stuck to that from then on.
>
> I was an avid follower of the lug until I burned out from too much  
> time in the darkroom. I remember the time I was upset by having a  
> half-dozen undeveloped rolls of film and reading Tina Manley's  
> complaint about 300 such rolls! Finally, I lost my darkroom in  
> favor of an extra bathroom--I've heard that story before.
>
> Decided finally to cave in and go digital. Bought a Nikon P & S and  
> Lightroom just to get the feel of digital. Being a retired  
> computers software professional, I had been reluctant to get  
> involved with yet another computer technology. Realizing that I  
> could live with digital, my first impulse was to buy a full-frame  
> Nikon or Canon SLR. But remembering how much I enjoyed using the  
> Leica, and that once I had it, I did use any of my other nine  
> cameras, I finally decided that I should get an M9 (I'm 87 and you  
> just can't take it with you!)
>
> I have a question for the group, and hope I'm not violating the  
> Friday-only protocol by posing it: My M6 is in mint condition as  
> far as I can tell. What is a fair price for it a) if I sell it to a  
> store, and b) if I sell it privately?
>
> Herb
> -- 
> Herbert Kanner
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>
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