Leica bargains?

[albertwang]

What is the best Leica bargain you ever found? I think the best one is my Leica 24mm R lens which I got for $350 which I am not complaining about

[nyrich]

A 135mm f4.5 Hektor M mount with perfect glass for $10. Some day I may even use it.

[guy_mancuso]

I have to admit i actually got one bargain price after buying 12 lenses at high used prices. i picked up the 280 F4 for 2500, trust me that was a bargain price. But everything else like the 2 DMR's and R9 almost full retail price. Ouch!!!!
All my lenses I bought used and if there is a bargain there is i did not have to pay retail but still very high price tags but i would do it all over again in a minute. Just don't tell my wife that

[jim0266]

50 Summilux (pre-asph) new with PP warranty for $1,200.

[zanydave]

A 280 F4 for 1600 GBP

Dave

[bradreiman]

my mom bought a camera bag with canon ae1 for 5 dollars at a yard sale that had a IIIg with summaron on it in the side pocket

[hm1912]

Somebody in or near Turin probably got a great deal on my stolen R4, 50 summicron, 28 elmar, and 135 elmar.

[elmarman]

Our Spanish member at the Club went to her Grandson's School Fete; on one of the stalls was a box with a Leica L1 compact camera, two cassettes Jessops films case etc. She asked " Is it a REAL camera" as it was priced at £1-50 ( She KNEW about Leicas from her club membership,but didn't know they made compacts). She was assured it WAS real so bought it for the £1-50 ! Here is a pic I took with it when I tested it for her.

[albertwang]

Another bargain I got was my Leica Elmar-r 90mm f4 I found on ebay for $175. No complaints there. Used it with my CL. I would love to have the Summicron or Elmarit too!

[djcastelli]

I got the large ball head/and the fold-flat tripod, film tongue cutter and Leica bulk loader for
$.50 about 30 years ago. I got a M2 for $500.00 at antique store about 3 years ago.
Dan

[bscott]

About 30 years ago I bought a M3 with the 35mm lens for the M3 for a total of 150.00 USD. My best camera deal ever.

[earleygallery]

A R 90mm 2.8 Elmar off e bay, £100.

[garyp]

Got a 250 2nd version for li'l over 300 $US in great shape, a 1.4 APO Ext for $400.

I know this isn't what you meant but, my first SL I got for $350 had it for 25 years; it's on it's way back from Kindermann from it's 2nd ever CLA. I consider it a heck of a bargain

[doubice]

Mint silver chrome Wetzlar M4 with 1.4/35mm Summilux for US$400.00.

Same seller had a beaten up Leica model II with a useless Summar; the outfit looked as if pulled out of a hungry dog's mouth and he wanted US$300.00 for it. Go figure.....

Jan

[pilot]

50mm Summicron Rigid screw mount for 33UKP. Mind you, that was back in about 1965. Even so, it was a bargain. Wonder how much it's worth nowadays.

[leicapages]

Two actually:

- a mint Super-Elmar-R 15/3.5 ROM for 1.500 euro
- a new Vario-Elmarit-R 35-70/2.8 ASPH for around 2.500 euro (bought the only sample available at the shop after the lens came out -- it was discontinued very quickly after that moment, the rest -as they say- is history...)

Pascal
http://www.leicapages.com

[xray]

My wife and I were in an antique shop a few years ago and I saw what appeared to be a camera case under a counter. I asked the owner to see it and he pulled a Leica case out with a $1,200 price tag. I opened the case and a very clean M2 and 50 2.8 elmar was in it. I said I thought this was a little high in price and he stated there were other items. He pulled a large hard case from under the counter and opened it. It ontained seven or eight Leitz lenses and one Zeiss LTM including a mint 8 element 35 summicron, mint elmarit 90 and mint 135 elmar plus many very nice lenses. There was a visoflex 1 with two tops, bellows, cables adapters, filters, MR-4 meter, Viso 2 leitz tripod and two ball heads and many more items. There was a couple thousand dollars in adapters and focusing mounts alone. Then he pulled a mint IIIG and 50 summicron out and said he would take $500 for the IIIG and lens. I nearly broke my arm getting my check book out. He also had a III that was a disaster that he was asking $500 for but I passed on that one. I kept the MR-4 and M2 plus a couple of lenses and sold the rest. I later sold the lenses but in all I make a cool chunk of cash plus kept the M2 and MR-4 meter.

[grober]

M8 for $4,995.

[psquared]

400mm head + 2X focusing module for $5,500
15/2.8 for $3,500

Even bargains can make you broke.

[Hel-Stampes]

My R9 brand new for 1400 $
+ 100 APO Macro for 800 $