Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/27

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Subject: [Leica] Leica investment economics - was Financial people in Lug
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:50:47 -0600 (CST)
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Geoff -- you're right, I completely forgot about Cosina, and I've got  
a Bessa R3a sitting here!  But I'm predicting what might happen in  
the future to M prices.   Robert

On Dec 27, 2010, at 7:44 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:

> 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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