leica M5: price evolution

[LOOP]

As many leica fans are selling now a lot of leica M , mostly M6, to get the funds to pay the new leica M8, how do you see the argus/price evolution for the M5 ?:angel: :angel:
I see some M6 coming for 1100 /1500 euros on e bay, wha t would be the right price to pay NOW for an M5 ???
Thanks

 

[Keith]

I think there is a difference between the M5 and M6 that will effect the resale considerably. The M5 has become a collectable due to it's short and contraversial life span. You can buy a beater off ebay for around $500.00 - $600.00 but collectors, particularly the Japanese, seem to be prepared to pay $1500.00 - $2000.00 for mint examples.

Terrific camera and very underrated and should continue to increase in value!

http://www.cameraquest.com/m5.htm

 

[venchka]

Condition! Condition! Condition!

In 2006, $1,000 to $1,500 for very good to very nearly unused looking black bodies. Both had very recent CLAs and other work performed. I saw a beater for $700 in a local shop. It sold before the M3, $825, and M4-P, $900, in the same shop.

 

[Magus]

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[LOOP]

I choosed fo an M5

I choosed fo an M5

I was hesitating buy an M5 on e bay or a new ZI. Today many M5 where on sale on e bay , so I could not restist and got one for 560 euros (725 $).
Why: i have already a beautiful contax IIIa which is with the 50 mm 1,5 the top evolution for zeiss 35 mm rangefinder ; I am not a Leica fan just willing to say : have you seen I have got a Leica ; I am more interested in praising well engineered camera and the M5 is the top for Leica even if the Leicaists did not buy this "ugly" camera. It is not ugly !!
I am still a Zeiss fan !!!😉

 

[NL2377]

I am more interested in praising well engineered camera and the M5 is the top for Leica even if the Leicaists did not buy this "ugly" camera. It is not ugly !!

Hehe, I think the only way that I would buy an M5 would be if it came accesorized w/ a 115pc bit set for my dremel... that and some solder and a couple of buckets of paint!

Guess we have different perspectives of what's ugly and what's not. lol. ;-)

 

[thomasw_]

the M5..., the last Wetzlar-built, hand assembled and hand-adjusted Leica. It is the "form follows function", Porsche Design, Leica; but those who have not used one in the heat of battle will not understand how everything about it makes it work. To get the most out of the M5 you need to learn to use its meter quickly.

Leica was scratching their collective heads over this one for years. Give them a tool for making the best pictures and they want an art object. ah, pure romanticism...yet I do love using my IIIc, as well as my M5. They are both so well designed, crafted and built.
And they don't have any red dots on them😛

 

[NL2377]

Leica was scratching their collective heads over this one for years. Give them a tool for making the best pictures and they want an art object. ah, pure romanticism...

lol, you're bashing photographers on this one?!?! It's leica who drastically changed the design in attempt to make it an art object!!! lol. and they failed miserably in many's perspective.

Believe me, the mechanics of the camera are beautiful, beautiful, indeed. but I think they put too much, too fast, into this one... you'd've thought that they would have learned by thier mistakes, but seems they did w/ the M8 and the issues it's been having!

And they don't have any red dots on them😛

hehe, thank god. I love leica, and those cute little red dots are nice... on a minilux. but an M, or Barnack... no-sir-ree... just means that more ppl have to spend money on electrical tape.

 

[PHOTOEIL]

... but I think they put too much, too fast, into this one... .

Have a close look at the Visoflex III, then you wil see that Leitz was working on the M4's successor for a 'long' time.
But you are right when you say that everything is relative...

 

[NL2377]

Have a close look at the Visoflex III, then you wil see that Leitz was working on the M4's successor for a 'long' time.

Definately...