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Leica International Price Guide: Cameras, Lenses and Accessories (Hove Collectors Books) $13.22 Each edition of the Price Guide reflects the state of the market in Leica equipment at the time it is compiled. Over the last 18 years of publication of the Leica Price Guide market conditions have changed considerably, both nationally and internationally. This is only a guide to prices and should be used as such…. |
Vintage Leica Camera Values
Leica V- Lux 1 ?
I got some good price quotes on this camera and am considering getting my wife a Leica she has 2 Nikons,Cannon, Minolta, as well as a slew of vintage cameras. All of them are 35m except for a Nikon S9 pocket camera for on the go with my kids. She always says that the Leica’s are Lengendary and well I want to get her a SLR style. She is a professional photographer and worked with film most of her life and is now getting into digital. Some say that it’s the same camera as the Panasonic DMC-FZ50 but I think the Leica will hold it’s value more then the Panasonic. Any comments.
IMO your best choice is still the M8 – it is a continuation of the M series that began in 1954. Classic.
Leica really hasn’t been Leica since the mid 1970′s when it bought cameras from Minolta. The Minolta XE-7 was modified by Minolta with a Leica lens mount and metering system and sold as the Leica R-3. Later, the Minolta XD-11 underwent the same transformation and became the Leica R-4 & R-5.