Just Wondering

[Red Robin]

I was moving down my favorite wish site on da-bay and there it was a titanium M9/w lens, a 35mm 1:1.4 . A buy it now price of only $36,000. Don,t despair as the seller has two! Now I've read there nice and all that but even for a pro well was wondering' if someone is a pro even then is the work going to improve THAT much? If my work improved maybe a 1,000% I'd still think more than twice about such a purchase. It's only a camera (a box with a hole in it) the camera person still has to get it right, right?

 

[Lss]

Yes, some very expensive items exist. A special edition Leica is hardly that bad when compared to some of the ridiculous stuff that some people buy.

 

[jaapv]

It is a collectors item. Prices are magic dust on things like that. Nobody would pay millions for a blob of paint and some linen, but when it is marked van Gogh they do. I doubt more than one of the 500 M9Ti made will take even one photograph.

 

[Red Robin]

Thanks , just couldn't figure that one. Even unused, it then becomes a $30,000 paperweight. Nice lookin, but just tits on a bull. RR

 

[Paul Luscher]

It's essentially the same camera as your plain-vanilla (if you can call it that) $7,000 M9, but tarted up a bit. Only interesting thing about it, from my standpoint, are the LED framelines.

Agree with everybody above. That thing is nothing any working pro photogs ae going to use. They're essentially bragging rights for rich people (like those $20,000 German shotguns), and will likely spend most of their time in glass cases...or safety deposit boxes....

 

[MCTuomey]

I'd like to be the guy who buys one and then shoots the finish off the thing in 12 months ...

 

[Glass Addict]

I guess counter-argument would be if your intention is to take pictures, why would you pay so much more in premium when the virtually the same can be done with a regular M9?

 

[MIkhail]

I was moving down my favorite wish site on da-bay and there it was a titanium M9/w lens, a 35mm 1:1.4 . A buy it now price of only $36,000. Don,t despair as the seller has two! Now I've read there nice and all that but even for a pro well was wondering' if someone is a pro even then is the work going to improve THAT much? If my work improved maybe a 1,000% I'd still think more than twice about such a purchase. It's only a camera (a box with a hole in it) the camera person still has to get it right, right?

What a waste of money.
Instead, you could have bought four Leicas M9.

 

[maddoc]

Judging as somebody who lives close to Tokyo and witnesses money-spending madness on a frequent basis, I find the M9Ti not very expensive ... 😱

 

[tlitody]

It is a collectors item. Prices are magic dust on things like that. Nobody would pay millions for a blob of paint and some linen, but when it is marked van Gogh they do. I doubt more than one of the 500 M9Ti made will take even one photograph.

That's a big leap of faith. Mechanical design has long interested collectors but since when did old computer chips and software command very high prices. They are two a penny.

 

[Glass Addict]

That's a big leap of faith. Mechanical design has long interested collectors but since when did old computer chips and software command very high prices. They are two a penny.

you should check out what the first apple computer sold for in an auction.. i think it happened not too long ago. I think it's rarity that interests collectors.

 

[jaapv]

That's a big leap of faith. Mechanical design has long interested collectors but since when did old computer chips and software command very high prices. They are two a penny.

But wasn't the M9Ti a designer-driven marketing exercise ? It seems to me that in this case the electronic part is incidental. Besides, Leica digital cameras appear run counter to the digital depreciation trend - A DMR will set you back over 3000 € even with its battery troubles, an M8 1750 €, an M8.2 2500 € and even the PanaLeica Digilux2 700 €. As a contrast I paid 1000 € for a brand-new old stock M6 classic!