[Leica] Leica collecting --- was Leica: A new M lens?

[Vick Ko <vick.ko@sympatico.ca>]

Is this also spelling the end of camera collecting as an investment?  
I'm seeing drops in collectible camera prices in most areas.  One of my 
reasons for having a Leica collection was that Leica was generally in 
front of the pack for optical quality and workmanship, as well as 
holding power for their already high prices. 

I think the Leica optical quality and workmanship are still there.  The 
prices are still high.  But the "keeping power" of their after-market 
price is diminishing.  And the collector frenzy isn't enough to keep 
prices up.

Maybe when Leica stops production on an item for 30 or so years, their 
prices will pick up.


...Vick

Jim Shulman wrote:

>As recently as last year you could invest in good condition, clean used
>Leica stuff and more or less get your money back when you decided to
>sell.  That ain't the case today--and with more than 50% of the new
>equipment market in the US going for digital in 2003, I doubt it's going
>to get much better for Leica equipment.
>
>Jim Shulman
>Bryn Mawr, PA 
>  
>

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