New (cheaper) Leica Film Camera on the Way?

[JeffS7444]

Here’s a list from 1987...

https://www.pacificrimcamera.com/images/137353.jpg

Which is why I’m saying it will not be cheap...

I'd be amazed if many dealers realized those kinds of margins shown in the price list: I could've sworn that M6 was more typically advertised no higher than about $2500, and by the late 1990s, I was able to buy a factory-refurbished silver M6 from an authorized dealer for under $1600.

 

[jsrockit]

I'd be amazed if many dealers realized those kinds of margins shown in the price list: I could've sworn that M6 was more typically advertised no higher than about $2500, and by the late 1990s, I was able to buy a factory-refurbished silver M6 from an authorized dealer for under $1600.

I’m not sure... I know I bought a used M6 in 1990 for $1000... and i was under the impression a new one was around $2000.

 

[ka7197]

I'd say the rumour about an upcoming 'budget' film Leica M is just b.llsh.t.

 

[james.liam]

I'd say the rumour about an upcoming 'budget' film Leica M is just b.llsh.t.

Your dubiousness is as valid as the rumor itself.

 

[Pál_K]

In 1998 I bought a new-in-box M6 with new-in-box 50/2 Summicron from Camera World of Oregon for about US$1800.

 

[nzeeman]

i just think it will be produced out of germany-it will look the same-maybe just less framelines available... it wont cannibalize anything because leica addicts ignore any weird leica-see the prices of canadian ones of cl... low priced one will just bring more young people into leica world and they will eventually want real german one so from every few cheap leica sold to a new people they will probably get one expensive leica sold later on and of course one lens. so they will expand on new grounds. if they price it 2500 every person that want m6 will get this one because better new than used. no need for cheap collabs or any experiment. they want new people and want them to keep them as conservative possible so they would continue to live in leica trap.

 

[nzeeman]

I’m not sure... I know I bought a used M6 in 1990 for $1000... and i was under the impression a new one was around $2000.

i bought m6 in 2010 for 900eur

 

[jsrockit]

i bought m6 in 2010 for 900eur

Yes, we all know prices in the last 10 years... we were trying to figure out how much an m6 was when it was introduced... see the list from 1987 above. We were talking about the prices seeming to be a bit high on that list vs. what we remember in the late 80s, early 90s.

 

[jsrockit]

I'd say the rumour about an upcoming 'budget' film Leica M is just b.llsh.t.

I think it might be too. No budget lenses to go with it...

 

[JeffS7444]

i just think it will be produced out of germany

I think that the last truly German M was the M4?

 

[JeffS7444]

I think it might be too. No budget lenses to go with it...

Nothing to stop them from bundling with a reissued Summarit lens.

 

[jsrockit]

Nothing to stop them from bundling with a reissued Summarit lens.

Except the combo will be $5000+ ... a cheap and brand new Leica M is a pipe dream.

 

[JeffS7444]

Except the combo will be $5000+ ... a cheap and brand new Leica M is a pipe dream.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

 

[PRJ]

Knowing Leica they will come out with a "budget" model that will sell for what an MP sells for now, and the MP will go up another thousand...

 

[Bill Blackwell]

They should then just drop the $5200 price of the MP

You're right, of course.

There was the zinc alloy topcover and the lack of flair-free optics (both were - or weren't - to save money on production costs). But regardless, I doubt a reintroduced M6 is it.

 

[zenza]

Obvious that they upgraded or that there are a lot of expensive camera users?

Obvious they upgraded.

 

[Ambro51]

Could not the Model 1A be “reintroduced”, 2025 is the Centennial. Realistically, the A is a bone simple camera which could also be a budget camera. Fixed 50 Elmar.

 

[james.liam]

Obvious they upgraded.

The decades pass and fewer of the most desirable cameras remain operational. With the accretion of time, attrition of spare parts and people capable of repairing them are inevitable. What's left costs more and more until something new with warranty is attractive again. As illustration, an R9 that can no longer be repaired and the least expensive one listed is at US$1850. If you subtract 20% for the usual eBay over-optimism, that's still over $1400 for a potential brick. The Contax T3 is a brick-in-waiting for over $2000 now. The R6.2 is fetching close to $750. Add another $250 for a CLA and $1000 is spent. The meter of an M6 TTL is no longer fixable yet it still draws top-dollar.

 

[jsrockit]

Obvious they upgraded.

Interesting...

 

[jsrockit]

Could not the Model 1A be “reintroduced”, 2025 is the Centennial. Realistically, the A is a bone simple camera which could also be a budget camera. Fixed 50 Elmar.

Well, the 0 (null) was $995 when new and like $2000+ now...so there is a precedent.