Leica M6 out of sight

[Bingley]

I might add that sales of CV Bessa's and the Zeiss Ikon camera's are also at ridiculous prices. Could I have predicted this I would have bought 10 each of these at issue and made a killing. Regardless both models are lovely cameras but not worth the asking prices we are seeing. Mr K, please reissue some of these models!!

When I described the R2A as a poor man's M7, I never imagined that the price differential would narrow. Maybe it's now just an M7 lite.

 

[maigo]

Two of my film distributors have told me that the 35mm film demand has more than doubled (!) in the last five years.
Global film backorders are currently in the 20-30 million units range, mainly colour film.

They (the distributors) have problems to get enough film from Kodak and Fujifilm, therefore some film types are regularly sold out in the shops.
Some film manufacturers are already producing 35mm in three shifts per day. But even that is not enough to keep up with demand. Kodak therefore has announced to increase their capacity by investing in new, additional machinery to increase production. Fujifilm is probably doing the same, as they also have problems to keep up with demand.

Therefore it is not surprising at all that prices of used film cameras are increasing, because the demand for them is increasing.
But Leica has said that also the demand for their new MP and M-A film models is strongly increasing.
Leica has also started to sell film in some of their Leica stores.

The film renaissance is huge. And not only driven by young photographers, but also by middle-agers who have a kind of "digital fatigue".

Concerning the film market, you find lots of interesting info - often including news from the companies themselves - at photrio. RFF is unfortunately often "out of touch" with what is really going on in the film community.

All good news. Thanks for sharing.

/rant on
Too many pedantic posters at Photrio and too many outraged ignoramus at FB keep me away from both.
rant off/

 

[Pál_K]

...
Also know there is a lot of sentimental value, even though a camera and my other possessions are just objects, over time they somehow spiritually have become part of me.

Cal

That's true for many people, I believe. Some of the things we have are precious to us despite having little or no value to anyone else.

The rising prices of M6's, or whatever, is of no consequence to those of us who will never sell our cameras.

 

[newsgrunt]

It is faintly embarrassing to report that not merely do I have an RB67 but I also possess a beanie. At the tender age of 54 I think my chances of hipsterism are slipping daily and I have no plans for a beard, topknot (fat chance of that) or a tattoo...

hahaha. the one thing I would strongly suggest, or beat into the younger crowd, is that braces (suspenders to the great unwashed lol) shld NOT be the clip on variety. They should be buttoned braces, with the buttons on the inside. imnsho 😉

I hate clip ons with the fury of a million suns, unless they're used with chainsaw chaps, at which point I will confess to owning a pair of Husqvarna and Stihl clip ons, which I use when felling trees

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

That's a relief. On the one and only occasion I've ever had clips ons, the mere act of leaning forwards sent the rear clip skyward, then to rebound downward as the trousers commenced their descent.

I'm a belt and (button) brace man nowadays...

 

[Calzone]

That's true for many people, I believe. Some of the things we have are precious to us despite having little or no value to anyone else.

The rising prices of M6's, or whatever, is of no consequence to those of us who will never sell our cameras.

P-K,

Imagine still owning your first car. How valuable is that?

The Wetzlar M6 mentioned above was my first Leica. Before that I only owned one camera, a Nikon F3P that I still own and shoot.

My F3P was a real "Press Camera" that was owned by the Newspaper "Newsday." The camera had just been serviced by Nikon after having just come back from covering Operation Desert Storm. This camera has "Mojo."

Cal

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

If Rip Van Winkle wanders in here he should feel right at home.

All the best,
Mike

 

[sepiareverb]

It will give me something to do besides collecting string.

The string collecting and use forums have been so dead lately. Their loss is our gain.

 

[David Hughes]

They take film!?!

Ha! I've just realised that the M6's are a prop for them in their selfies on their funifones...



Regards, David

 

[Ste_S]

Ha! I've just realised that the M6's are a prop for them in their selfies on their funifones...



Regards, David

Can we have a pop at retirees who blow their pension on new Leicas for keeping their price high yet ? Or for letting Leica think they can get away with Lenny Kravitz special editions ?

 

[emraphoto]

It is faintly embarrassing to report that not merely do I have an RB67 but I also possess a beanie. At the tender age of 54 I think my chances of hipsterism are slipping daily and I have no plans for a beard, topknot (fat chance of that) or a tattoo...

Now that we are sharing... I wear plaid work coats, sport a beard (also out of complete laziness), pack a Filson bag filled with film, journals, Whitman poetry and an iPhone. If I was 30 years younger I could be called a hipster. But the truth is I’m just old and stuck in my ways

 

[Huss]

When I described the R2A as a poor man's M7, I never imagined that the price differential would narrow. Maybe it's now just an M7 lite.

Used M7s are now selling for $2400.

 

[Steve Bellayr]

A Leica M10 at $7200 is prohibitive for the beginner; then you need to add lenses. An M6 with all the frame lines and meter at 2k seems reasonable.

 

[Huss]

A Leica M10 at $7200 is prohibitive for the beginner; then you need to add lenses. An M6 with all the frame lines and meter at 2k seems reasonable.

M10s are $4500 used now.

 

[analoged]

Damn

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Leica-M6-T...Only-No-Reserve/254468550493?autorefresh=true

 

[analoged]

I bought my M6 Classic here in the classifieds from Nanthor about 8 years ago for $890 shipped knowing it needed a CLA for some sticky frame lines. Still haven't had it CLA'd...

 

[WJJ3]

That’s why I bought an M-A over the MP, it has much better frame lines w no cut outs.
Essentially it is a new M4.

They are great looking cameras. If only they made them in BP and all 3 finder magnifications!

 

[Pál_K]

P-K,

Imagine still owning your first car. How valuable is that?
...

In that particular case, a negative value - as I came to hate it. If I had it today, I'd burn it. No... No... remember that Mythbusters episode with the cement truck and ANFO? Yeah, that's what I'd do. Please don't ask what it was.

But I do have my very first camera and several other "first" objects. As you say, there is a spiritual connection.

 

[Sarcophilus Harrisii]

There was a photo posted here some years ago (at least I think it was on here), of a famous actress taking photos with her Leica. With the lens cap on! Betcha that was one disappointing roll of film when it came back from the lab... but at least the lens was safe from dust, fingerprints, sunflares, etc.

I don't recall that, but some years ago Clapton was famously photographed using a rangefinder with the lens cap still in place.

 

[Pál_K]

Some people affix an object to their lens cap so they can notice the lens cap is on when they look through the viewfinder.

The L35AF's lens cap has a molded piece that actually covers the finder.

Others, I suppose, just get into the habit of removing the cap.

Even others, like me, never use a cap and use a hood and/or UV filter to protect the lens. I'm careful not to carry the camera pointed at the Sun on the one day of the year the Sun is visible.

Some have said that burning a hole in the shutter of a rangefinder camera is a myth and issued a challenge. So I tried to burn cloth shutter material with a lens at infinity and f/16 on that one sunny day, but it didn't burn. Strange.