Leica market in China

[bananasplit]

Does anyone knows if camera shops in Beijing have Leica equipment?

Last year, or was it the year before, Solms edited a special MP "classic" black paint with Summicron 50 also black paint (still no meter like the original MP).

This camera was made for the Chinese market through the regional distributor Schmidt group.

So I was wondering....

 

[bananasplit]

Lets try again.

Does anyone can recommend a camera store in Beijing?

 

[Avotius]

No and no. I have been to a good number of the leica/whatever shops in beijing and guangzhou, they are all over priced and have poor service from what I have seen. You have to remember in china there is hardly any decent used camera market so if it were me (and many times it has been) buy from here new: http://cokin.com.cn/ or here used: http://www.digifan.cn/ or maybe here: http://exchange.xitek.com/search.php? and sometimes here: http://www.taobao.com/

and the camera you are talking about was the m6p I believe, or it was the m6 dragon, either way they are blooooody expensive (well over 40,000 RMB)

 

[TS ISAAC]

I do not know about Beijing, but regarding Guangzhou, near my present location, in the computer center there in Tien He, there is a camera section. Found a fine LowePro backpack there.

Leica has a modular display there in Guangzhou as well, complete with an M8's. The Leica display is exaclty the same as I saw at Yodobashi, in Tokyo. Hong Kong is of course repleat with Leica dealers and a distributor. If you like, I will check further on the Beijing connection. As Avotius points out, prices start high here and price negotiation common. In China its best to know with whom you are dealing before dealing!

 

[Avotius]

I do not know about Beijing, but regarding Guangzhou, near my present location, in the computer center there in Tien He, there is a camera section. Found a fine LowePro backpack there.

Leica has a modular display there in Guangzhou as well, complete with an M8's. The Leica display is exaclty the same as I saw at Yodobashi, in Tokyo. Hong Kong is of course repleat with Leica dealers and a distributor. If you like, I will check further on the Beijing connection. As Avotius points out, prices start high here and price negotiation common. In China its best to know with whom you are dealing before dealing!

one other thing you might try is to find out what the place is called then research them online, one of the shops in guangzhou whos name I forget I remember I was looking at a m7, they had it tagged for 20,000 but I knew of course that a lot of negotiation would be needed, well I found them online and they had a store with the same camera and a price well under their marked price, so....ya, give it a shot.

 

[TS ISAAC]

Leica Dealers in Beijing

Leica Dealers in Beijing

Bananasplit,


Here is a list of shops that Leica recognizes as their own legit dealers in Beijing. I hope this proves to be a good starting point for you. I would try the e-mail links first and see what you can learn there. Best of luck to you in China. Its a marvelous place for photography, with any camera!








Leica Shop

Address:
Spring In Rhein Commercial Co.
North A No.109, No.5 Building, Regalcourt, No.28, Guangqu Road
100022 Chaoyang District, Beijing
Phone:
010-58631047
Fax:
010-58631047
E-mail:
jinlei@leica-eshop.com
WWW:
http://www.leicawindows.com




Leica Premier Dealer

Address:
Beijing Rayi China Business Co., Ltd.
Beijing SOHO New Town, No.88 Jianguo Road S-0502
Chaoyang District, Beijing
Phone:
800-810-3859
Fax:
010-85806641
E-mail:
service@rayi.cn
WWW:
http://www.rayi.cn

Leica Premier Dealer

Address:
Beijing Todayhuifeng Digital and Technology Center
West side of Kuitai Royal Hotel frontispiece, B12 Chaowai Dajie
Beijing
Phone:
010-58790481
Fax:
010-58730480
E-mail:
thf@8818.com.cn
WWW:
http://www.8818.com.cn

Leica Dealer

Address:
You Yi Shopping City Beijing Lufthansa center
F4 You Yi Shopping City Beijing Lufthansa center, No.52 Liangma Dridge Road
Chaoyang District, Beijing
Phone:
13901368093
E-mail:
wwwww.1122@sohu.com

 

[bananasplit]

Thank you so much to all.

Hopefully in a few weeks I will tell you what I found or not.

 

[hofrench@mac.co]

There is a great camera market in Shanghai, just off of Chongqing Road (and Luban Road).
It is a recent'y opened multy-story building full of shops of all types, from very serious and reasonably competitive used equipment dealers to specialists in large format, darkroom gear, or the DSLR market. A handful of the shops deal in Leica gear.