leicanut2 Posted May 21, 2012 Share #21 Posted May 21, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) Kind of makes me want to dump all my Leica gear, and call it day. Clearly, I'm being pushed out of the Leica club. I am a ghetto child from the Bronx. ;-) I have sold it all, only thing left a Leica slide projector. Maybe a D-lux 6 coming? I know not really a leica but at least I can rub my fingers over a red dot again. Still hoping to strike oil in my back yard planting a Geranium, lol. If only the stocks would go up. Oh well it is what it is. Jan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted May 21, 2012 Posted May 21, 2012 Hi leicanut2, Take a look here Sell your M9 and M9-P and buy the M9M. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
jaapv Posted May 21, 2012 Share #22 Posted May 21, 2012 Whilst we are int o car comparisons, I bought a Morgan 4/4 for the equivalent of 14.000 Euro in 1979 . The same car would cost me about 100.000 euro now.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Washington Posted May 21, 2012 Share #23 Posted May 21, 2012 I bought a five cent coke once. Honest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicanut2 Posted May 21, 2012 Share #24 Posted May 21, 2012 2 cent post card. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rramesh Posted May 22, 2012 Share #25 Posted May 22, 2012 Facebook just created 750 millionaires. Wonder if they will all buy M-Monochroms with 50 APO Summicrons? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gberger Posted May 22, 2012 Share #26 Posted May 22, 2012 Not if the stock price continues to tank Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IkarusJohn Posted May 24, 2012 Share #27 Posted May 24, 2012 Advertisement (gone after registration) I'm intrigued at computer prices. It seems that the price remains about the same, year in year out, but you get bigger, faster, more for the same price. The problem is that you throw them away after a relatively short period of time (in camera terms). My M3 is 50 years old, and has had a service and works like a charm! I have no idea what it cost in 1962, but I paid €500 for it, and then spent a similar amount getting it serviced in Solms. I guess not a profitable investment had I bought it new (at the age of 3!), but still not bad. Cheers John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALD Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share #28 Posted May 24, 2012 Not if the stock price continues to tank The owners of Facebook don't give a flying Facebook about the stock price. They sold a fictional ownership to a mass of sheep who paid them hard cash for something that does not exist and yet retain the entire company to control as they wish. The only thing a sheep can do is try sell the fiction to another sheep who believes he is buying a company. Why on earth would you buy a share in a company that produces nothing is worth x million has advertising revenue of x billion but some corrupt bank values it at xxx billion because it got paid millions to do so? People learn one thing. The stock exchange is a place where a rich person goes to get a whole lot of free money that they never have to pay back. Why do you think the owners or agents of the owners of these companies pay themselves these massive bonuses.? Buy Leica shares if you want to speculate on a company that is going somewhere. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest malland Posted May 24, 2012 Share #29 Posted May 24, 2012 LUF is not so bad in this respect, but on some forums any discussion on the Monochorm turns into a tiresome tirade on the price. I have to confess that I'm not fascinated in reading who can cannot afford it. People who feel vehemently would do well just not to post anything because if there were little interest and a an inadequate sales volume, the price would go down or production would stop, neither which is likely to happen. But all the bellyaching... —Mitch/Bangkok Scratching the Surface© Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlancasterd Posted May 24, 2012 Share #30 Posted May 24, 2012 My M3 is 50 years old, and has had a service and works like a charm! I have no idea what it cost in 1962, but I paid €500 for it, and then spent a similar amount getting it serviced in Solms. I guess not a profitable investment had I bought it new (at the age of 3!), but still not bad. Cheers John I bought an M2 body, new, in December 1961, for £100 - IIRC an M3 body would have cost around £20 more. £1 in the early 1960s was the equivalent of £20-£25 today, so the M2 cost between £2,000 and £2,500 in today's money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Printmaker Posted May 25, 2012 Share #31 Posted May 25, 2012 I bought a five cent coke once. Honest. Me too. My high school had a Coke machine and a 6 ounce (maybe it was 7... it was a long time ago) cost a nickel. The 12 ounce orange/root beer/lemon lime sodas in the other machine cost a dime. Circa 1964-1968. And gas was .25-.30 per gallon and I paid $150 for my 1956 Chevy. But my after school job only paid $1.25 per hour. So it is all relative. BTW: a few years later, I bought my M2R for $160 and a 35 Summaron (2.8) ran about the same. A year later and my M4 and 35 Summicron cost twice as much. Together both cost a whole lot less than the GTO I was driving at that point. So there you have it, on the road to ruin at such a young age... I never was rich but I always had a good camera, a fast car and a beautiful woman. Money is just paper. I'll just have to print some more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenPatterson Posted May 25, 2012 Share #32 Posted May 25, 2012 Money is just paper. I'll just have to print some more. I believe there are some gentlemen from the Treasury Dept. who would like to discuss that with you... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyedward Posted May 25, 2012 Share #33 Posted May 25, 2012 All this talk of the M9M only fuels my desire for an M7 + 50 APO Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Printmaker Posted May 25, 2012 Share #34 Posted May 25, 2012 I believe there are some gentlemen from the Treasury Dept. who would like to discuss that with you... Its a trade expression. When you print an edition for an artist, it is called "printing money." I print "money" all day long. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveYork Posted May 25, 2012 Share #35 Posted May 25, 2012 When I was a snot-nosed kid, the accepted rule of thumb was that an M Leica cost as much as a family car. Is it any different today? I just took a look at the UK Volkswagen website, and the cheapest offering is just under 8,000 pounds. A mid-range car is anything from 20,000 upwards. That sort of money would buy an M monochrom complete with the new APO-Summicron. Not having a car may be one of the reasons why this child from the slums of a UK city was able to buy an M9-P last autumn. Best regards, Doug In the mid-70's(for example) an M5 or Leicaflex SL -- with today's dollars -- would cost about $3800 (US). The M4, an absolute steal in '72 at $2450 (today's numbers). So it would appear Leica's product line is inching away from their historical prices. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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