Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]ray tai wrote what is the deal with this camera and why is it so expensive? I don't get >> the point. what is a collectors item? you pay 4800 to sell it for 5500 10, >> 20 years from now? why > >My first Leica outfit - new M6, 50mm Summicron, used 90 Summicron set me back >just about $4000 about 4 years ago. I am sure the S3 is up to snuff so >what is >the diff? It's my impression that the S3 is a limited-edition slightly-updated copy of the 1958 S3. Only a couple of thousand built, only one lens available (50/1.4), sold by subscription in theory only in Japan. Meant for collectors, not for users, as a sort of millenium commemorative issue. I suppose that conceptually it occupies a similar place in Nikon's product line as the O camera occupies in Leica's. I suspect that the ones that are beginning to show up here now were imported directly from Japan, outside the Nikon USA channel. Years ago Nikon did something vaguely similar marketwise with the F3P, a camera which Nikon USA would tell you didn't exist. Regards Dan Bowdoin