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Pico, buying a Leica in a sort of way is like buying a Rolls Royce. Beside the real technical perfection, the first more than the second, you pay a certain amount just because the red dot. Like Fender guitars, just to make an example. The worst pieces of chunk on the Earth, but you pay a liver just because there's "Fender" on the headstock.

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Cruising the market place and I am floored, stunned by a couple items, in particular the lens shade for 75mm Summilux version 1. It is apparently the same for one Noctilux.

 

It's just a chunk of plastic!

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Pico,

 

If you refer to the 12503 hood, it's not "chunk of plastic" but metal and it's only for Noctilux 1.2, and very rare , not for first Summilux-M 1.4/75.

like this one

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/User-Leica-12503-Lens-hood-For-Noctilux-M-1-1-2-50mm-50-1-2-Rare/252253131155?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D34862%26meid%3D1783c3c9d4f54690b96a27c43abbe1b9%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D231786747581

 

You could buy with the lens for almost "free" ;) :

http://www.schouten-select.com/index.php/Leica/1304029-Leica-50mm-f1.2-Noctilux-12503-Hood-Very-Rare.html

 

 

After all the plastic 12544 is not "so expensive" for an original Leica hood not beeing made anymore.

http://www.schouten-select.com/index.php/Leica/1406013-Leica-12544-Lens-Hood-For-Noctilux-Box.html

 

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Lens-shade-hood-Sonnen-Blende-LEICA-Leitz-12544-NOCTILUX-1-50-50mm-F1-/310836943930?hash=item485f535c3a

 

Regards,

 

Arnaud

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I find prices are stratospherically high when I am trying to buy. When attempting to sell, they are dispiritingly low.

 

Plastic, the guy at the shop where I took some pics I posted on my Flickr page, had once a Leica collection. Maybe it wasn't as wide as Jean Claude's, Pierre's or Luigi's, but he told me when he sold it he bought a garage...

But. He actually had the chance to buy the collection in different pieces, moments, and from different people who lost a huge value when selling their stuff.

He found himself in the same situation. Beside buying the garage, he sold the collection in pieces and losing a bunch of money.

So it's a returning circle.

This is even worse when talking about digital. I've got a X-E2 on last Thursday. I gave in my Sony which is been valued quite good, for being a shop: Euros 200,00. Bu it was like new, with the bag, adaptor for filters and hood, still guaranteed 'til next month.

But I've paid almost Euros 400,00 two years ago, so I lost Euros 100,00 per year.

Worse than gold, lol.

What is the lesson? Buy digital only when the camera is one or two years old and the price dropped like hell, with the satisfaction of our mate Doc :lol:

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No more than one digital at a time 

and if you can afford buy only mint items if you plan to sell them some day in the future.

 

 

At first I thought you had introduced something new to my view of  photographic life;  impending obsolescence built into digital photography emphasizing ephemeral quality.

 

But now I know that it is a notion of nonsense. Any image of consequence, remembrance is made so -  alive regardless of how it is made.

 

Equipment be damned.

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