Voigtlander Bessa Ⅱ apo-lanthar

I doubt that image quality is driving the prices. Being a well known rarity is what the collectors are looking for.

I was reading in a gun collector book, that collectors tend to buy the mint items and the junk items leaving the middle grade stuff available to the shooter. That seems to hold true for cameras also.

It took me awhile to understand why they go for the junk stuff. I guess it is because it looks real old, and therefore, to their strange minds, valuable. I had thought that they bought the best they could find, and when they got a better one, sold the lower grade one off. But that book said that the collectors tended to hoard the top and bottom grade stuff, driving the prices out of the users price range, because there were not many available on the market.

The nice thing about that is that the "user" grade stuff in the middle remains available for us at fairly reasonable prices.
 
Bessa Ⅱ apo-lanthar

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