Cheapest M purchased?

[Landshark]

Two M3's, 50 Summilux and 28 Elmarit, 1st version for $350. from a resale shop.

 

[Scheelings]

Is it just Camera's? Otherwise I picked up a Noctilux 50/1 and 35mm Summilux ASPH for $4500 for the pair.

 

[roundg]

I'd come back from the grave and disown my stupid children if they were dumb enough to sell my Leica for 200 without at last a 1 in front.

Back on topic, MDa for $500+

Is a MDa price so expensive now?

 

[bob338]

Black M3(on the list)
Black Rigid Summicron
LTM 35mm Summaron 2.8
90mm Summicron(60s version)
Bag of finders and meters
$2100--Craigslist

 

[bob338]

Chrome M3
35mm V1 Summilux with eyes
50mm DR Summicron
A couple of finders and meters
$475--ebay

 

[canetsbe]

My first Leica purchase was a nice M3 double stroke with a chrome 90mm Elmarit with matching hood and MR-4 meter for $800 about three years ago. I guess at today's prices that'd put this M3 purchase at around $450-ish factoring in the value of the other pieces? Then I bought an m-hex 50/2 for around $450 and I sold it for $550 last year. I miss that lens... probably shouldn't have done that!!!

 

[valdas]

Beautiful pre-asph lux 35mm for 600$. Traded for Nikon SLR gear here on RFF...

 

[johannielscom]

M3 for EUR 425 (perfect, traded it in with other gear for an M8:bang
M5 for EUR 350 (sold)
M4 for EUR 175 (still awaiting torn shutter repair, no funds:bang
M2 for EUR 175 (flooded with oil in a 'CLA', cleaned it and sold it)

 

[johannielscom]

Since we're doing lenses as well: I bought a lot of five lenses and sold four of them for the purchase price: enter a free Super-Angulon 3.4/21mm, black with matching finder.

I was given a Summaron 2.8/35mm with goggles. Sold it after a while and invested the money in my current Summilux pre-ASPH 1.4/35mm.

 

[ferider]

I traded a DR Summicron that I had bought for US 300 against a Canadian M3.

Then again, at the time of the trade I could have sold the DR for US 800 +.

Goes to show how meaningless these price questions are. These days I buy for use/enjoyment. I'm not a professional camera trader and everytime these price threads come up I think they take away from why we use this classic gear ....

 

[sepiareverb]

Since we're doing lenses as well: I bought a lot of five lenses and sold four of them for the purchase price: enter a free Super-Angulon 3.4/21mm, black with matching finder.

Nice. That's the way to do it. I've got plenty in my equipment, but nowhere near what I could have in it through this method, and being lucky enough to often be in a position to snap up things to resell if a good price is dangled in front of me more often than not.

 

[ddutchison]

M6 TTL with a 50/1.4 Summilux at a Thrift Shop

M6 TTL with a 50/1.4 Summilux at a Thrift Shop

I picked it up for $80 at Valu-Village.

It was sitting on the second shelf of their display case, right below a mint 35/f2 Nikkor that had originally caught my eye ($25 - I bought that too).

I stood flat against the case completely blocking any view of the contents until a worker could show me the camera. Walked home with it in a plastic bag in a daze.

 

[Vickko]

Well done, and in Vancouver too.

Wow

I picked it up for $80 at Valu-Village.

It was sitting on the second shelf of their display case, right below a mint 35/f2 Nikkor that had originally caught my eye ($25 - I bought that too).

I stood flat against the case completely blocking any view of the contents until a worker could show me the camera. Walked home with it in a plastic bag in a daze.

 

[Thomas78]

My brother bought a M3 (single stroke), a Summarit 50 mm f/1.5, a Summaron 35 mm f/3.5 and a Elmar 90 mm f/4, many filters and some other photo stuff for 250 € - about 2 years ago...

 

[Travis L.]

Over 1.1mil M3 body in pretty rough cosmetic condition for $100. I figured I'd get her CLA'd and be good to go.
I never got that CLA, but ten years later she's still the smoothest M I own. About 75% of her original vulcanite was missing so I re-covered her with Aki Asahi 4008.

The photog that had her before me used her as a wide angle camera. Fitted with a 21 f4 and used professionally for about 30 years.
I had a chance to purchase that 21 when I got the camera but couldn't afford it at the time. The gentleman that did buy it passed away about a year ago and i was able to acquire the lens from his estate.
Now they're back together for good.

 

[Teuthida]

Free black paint m2.

About 15 years ago, a good friend told me he had a box of "junk" cameras in his closet tat had been bequeathed to him by his uncle, who apparently was a staff photographer for the NY Herald Tribune in the 50s and 60s. On showing me the box, it contained an M3, a black M2 and numerous lLeitz lenses and accessories. I told him I'd sell them all for him on EBay. Ithink I made him about $4000. In gratitude, he gave me the M2.

 

[ian_watts]

I tried to hide my shock when the thing was legit. We chatted. Was her mother's camera and she needed money for her kid's schoolbooks, so I felt good about offering $475.

Charming story.