[Leica] Leica investment economics - was Financial people in Lug

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

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
>
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