antistatic Posted March 26, 2009 Share #21 Posted March 26, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) MP new. 50 lux asph ex demo with passports. 35 cron asph pre loved from a reliable dealer. Slightly OT my Rolleiflex kit was from the Bay Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 26, 2009 Posted March 26, 2009 Hi antistatic, Take a look here Do we buy our Leicas new or pre owned?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
maurometallo Posted March 26, 2009 Share #22 Posted March 26, 2009 I HAVE NEVER BOUGHT A LEICA ! I have always used an M3 with an Elmar 50mm f3.5 bought new by my father in 1961, and last year my wife gave me a V-LUX for my birthday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest darkstar2004 Posted March 26, 2009 Share #23 Posted March 26, 2009 I only have one body which I bought new (an MP .072). I am considering buying a nice clean M3 as a BUB (Back Up Body). I will either go that route or get a Zeiss Ikon body as a BUB. My lenses were purchased new. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
giordano Posted March 27, 2009 Share #24 Posted March 27, 2009 I've been using Leicas since 1969 but they've always been too expensive for me to consider buying new, though in the last couple of years I've been able to make exceptions for the M8 (impatient to get a good compact digital camera and traded some nice Nikon gear) and 75mm Summarit (traded my 90mm Elmarit-M). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrid Posted March 27, 2009 Share #25 Posted March 27, 2009 I bought two of my M and one R body new. Also two or three of my lenses were purchased new, as was a Leicavit. Then Leica started to raise their prices in to the stratosphere and lost me. $4000 for a new body or $4200 for a 35 Lux Asph is too rich for my blood. Same for the M8.2 I wanted an MP3 body, but that's not going to happen in the near future. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
razerx Posted March 27, 2009 Share #26 Posted March 27, 2009 I buy new unless it isn't available new. If I am going to spend a few thousand for a lens then I wouldn't care to save a few hundred by buying used. The risk and lack of warranty and all that are just not worth the penny pinching. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeplanter Posted March 27, 2009 Share #27 Posted March 27, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) M3 used, MP new. Lenses, both new and used. JIm B. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveYork Posted March 27, 2009 Share #28 Posted March 27, 2009 I've purchased a few things new at list price -- a MP and 50mm Summilux asph when they first came out and a left over R6.2. If I had any type of delayed satisfaction, I've could of saved some money by waiting and searching around a bit. The other lenses were purchased new at a tremendous savings when stores were either discontinuing their Leica stock or here this summer at the end of the analog R line. The 35mm and 90mm M lenses were purchased at about 30% off list and and R lenses were obtained all at 60-65% off list. And then I purchased a used MP as a back up which I never use. But it's very pretty sitting up there on the shelf looking down at me. Leica cameras and lenses is really my only one vice in life. I don't really feel too bad, because every blue moon I take a really good picture that justifies having it all. Now the funny thing about it is that -- other than the R6.2 -- I could probably sell everything for more then what it originally cost me. I don't know if this will remain true, given the fluctuating interest in film, but I've always felt that people lose money with Leicas when they buy and sell, buy and sell, buy and sell; but if they buy and hold, and use, then everything is pretty and the world's in harmony. And as long as you use something, it's not a waste. Having said all that, I do need to slim down -- 3 cameras is just too much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KM-25 Posted March 27, 2009 Share #29 Posted March 27, 2009 I bought my 28 Summicron, previous 50 lux asph and M8 ( since sold ) all new. Everything else has been used. But my MP-3, Leicavit, 50 Lux LHSA kit was pretty much brand new, the seller could not bring him self to use it or see it sit in a humidor so he sold to me in brand new condition for 5K. There is simply no way I would pay the new prices for Leica gear today, they are insane. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
E.M Posted March 27, 2009 Share #30 Posted March 27, 2009 Marie-Louise, is that Scarlett Johansson in your avator ? Etienne Michiels Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted March 29, 2009 Share #31 Posted March 29, 2009 Hello Everyone (this is my first post!). I bought an R3 and Summicron 50mm used, in the early 90's from a Leica dealer..sold them a couple of years ago and bought an MP off ebay (mint/working perfectly) and a 35mm Lux ASPH used from a dealer (well used, but the glass is spotless and it works fine). Just recently I bought a Panny LX3 (the one with Leica glass) new. I think buying used is such great value, and the resale market for Leica is so strong that you don't lose much cash if you have to sell (you might even turn a profit!)...seems like the way to do things for me. I can see that it would be nice to have the passport warranty you get when buying new, especially if you're a pro. Being an amateur this means less to me. In the end though I love my MP so much that if I had to buy again...used or new would be fine. Some things are beyond cost...and Leica cameras fall into that category. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andym911 Posted March 29, 2009 Share #32 Posted March 29, 2009 all used but good to mint condition.... I have more fun buying used, spend less and can't see the difference in my prints:D with the money I 'saved' I repair my used Beetle;) andy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiefey Posted March 30, 2009 Share #33 Posted March 30, 2009 Have to buy used/pre-owned. I need the money I save to pay my alimony. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikau Posted March 30, 2009 Share #34 Posted March 30, 2009 Roughly 50-50 new and used. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leitz_not_leica Posted March 30, 2009 Share #35 Posted March 30, 2009 ALL used..INSANE to buy new! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
think Posted March 31, 2009 Share #36 Posted March 31, 2009 M6TTL .85 and 50 Cron were bought new and were all I used for a couple of years. Picked up a like new M6TTL .72 as a second film carrier and other than a couple of new VC wides everything else Leica has been bought used. I'd really love to pick up a 35 Lux Asph, but even the used prices are out of sight these days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrid Posted March 31, 2009 Share #37 Posted March 31, 2009 I'd really love to pick up a 35 Lux Asph, but even the used prices are out of sight these days. I was lucky. Got mine as a dealer demo, a few years ago. Arrived pretty much new in the box, with a 1 year warranty. Even back then the demo unit wasn't cheap, but these days you'll have a hard time finding a used mint example for what I paid (roughly $1800). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted March 31, 2009 Share #38 Posted March 31, 2009 I'd really love to pick up a 35 Lux Asph, but even the used prices are out of sight these days. I was lucky too. Found a dealer who had a well used one with perfect glass, cheap. If you do find one at a reasonable cost. Buy it! It's an incredible lens. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
louloumum Posted March 31, 2009 Share #39 Posted March 31, 2009 Marie-Louise, is that Scarlett Johansson in your avator ? Etienne Michiels Noooooo...Etienne, of course it's me looking astonishingly much like Scarlett Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
think Posted March 31, 2009 Share #40 Posted March 31, 2009 I keep an eye on all of the usual suspects...errr...outlets, but nothing's crossed my path in a range I can afford as yet. The longer I wait the larger the fund grows. These days the increments are much smaller though. At the rate I'm going I'll be able to buy it just in time to bequeath it to my daughter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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