Your BEST Leitz Leica bargain or find?

Leica CL with both lenses, the 40 and 90mm, hoods, caps, and combi case, all like new- $495.

I bought a cheap used R lens (don't remember which one now, but it was under $100) about 10 years ago from a guy, who threw in a beaten up R3 for free after we had completed the deal. I cleaned it up, touched up the brassed areas, and used it for 5-6 years...a very enjoyable and dependable camera. Finally sold it to get a Leicaflex SL2.

Leica Elmar M 50mm f/2.8 like new demo with all the stuff & warranty for $400, Leica C 40mm & 90mm lenses, minty, at about $200 each. Complete G2 kit + 45mm lens etc, nearly new for under $500, but it was before Kyocera quit manufacture. . . Now G2's are less available and the values are rising. I am thinking the older cameras are holding their value better than my 401K!

50mm Summicron rigid with perfect glass for 99 euro. Black MR4 meter in fab condition 40 euro. Camera fairs; gotta love 'em.

Can I throw in my only rangefinder bargain? Nikon M and 50mm for $25. Even I didn't know what it was worth, but it was a cool camera. A couple years later I was offered $2500 for it. I said "What?"

An excellent condition Focomat IIc with Focotar 60 and 100 V Elmar and a full set of masks, timer, Leitz easel, etc for

GBP 350 (550 USD) last year from a camera shop with a guarantee!!

 

Charlie

A near mint M7 with the latest version Summicron for $1200. It was the 29th of February (leap year) just after midnite, there

was a

a full moon and I was the only bidder. Oh no! My nose is getting longer!!! ;-)

Leica IIIc with 50mm f2 Summitar and never ready case - $40.. The case needed a new top and cleaning. The lens and the camera were fine. This was at an antique show and was the seller's asking price. As I quickly paid (with my wife walking rapidly away to avoid laughing), I told the seller, "Some people don't know what they have." He agreed.

 

Dave

Summicron M 2.0/ 35mm ASPH. for $500

Summilux-M 1.4 / 35mm ASPHERICAL for $2300

Brand new Leica M8 for $3000

Leica MD-2 and 21-24-28 VF for $360

Leica M mount converted Canon 50mm F0.95 for $380...

Someone has to win the lottery. Summicron 35 / f2, 1st version w goggles, immaculate mint in box with filter and caps....$200. On Craigslist.

Leica IIIg w/ 50 2.8 Elmar, hood, Canon Serenar 28 w/finder. $125.00. Summarit 50 1.5 cast hood $5.00; I bought the lens later for $50.00 but having it rebuilt was $$.

i bought a DR 50 summicron on the auction site a few months ago for $49. noone else bid on it.

 

bob

hope this doesn't make anyone puke:

$1500 in 1984, from a card pinned up in a lab:

M3 SS (mint)

35mm Summicron with eyes (mint in case-probably never used)

50mm DR (on camera)

65mm (never used)

90mm (never used)

135mm

200 Teleyt (never used)

Visoflex & adapters (never used)

Filters on all lenses; plus red, orange, yellow, polarizer

Leica Books, catalogs, receipts for all equipment

Leica Camera bag

*sold 65mm, 200mm and visoflex on auction site and made more than original purchase price

ok no boxes so maybe it wasn't that great of a deal....

I still have receipt (canceled check) for all the stuff - dentist's estate sale.

The old lady next door gave away her husbands (gone then) old film camera to the guy across the street thats a contactor/concrete dude. His knowlegde about cameras is interesting. When I had a 4x5 Speed Graphic on a Tiltall tripod he thought it was a movie camera. He got 200 bucks or so for the old ladys obsolete film camera from a pawn shop. I visted the pawn shop and all he knew it was an Leica; it was already sold already. Months later I spotted the boxes in the trash out front; I sold them on ebay for about 100 bucks to guy in Hong Kong; a box for a M3 and DR Summicron!

A while back (like 10 years ago) I found a Leica DR Summicron in a little shop in Budapest for $450 Aust at a time when they were selling for around double this. To make it better when i got back to Oz I found the eyes to go with it for $35. Very happy!

I was buy a 35mm Summicron F2.0 for M type two yeards ago. The seller sold it to me 20USD. He was think it was a enlarger lens. Lens was brand new.

 

Tolga

Leica IIIF, red dial self-timer with 50mm Summitar in Mint- condition, $125.00 and the camera store threw in a new looking case for an M that was "a

little too big". This was a long time ago. Several years later I traded it straight across to another camera store for a black Rollie 35 and considered

my sooo lucky for not losing any money. The store manager was practically drooling and now I know why. When your first serious camera is a

Leica IIIF, everything your will ever own after that will look like crap by comparison.

M4 for $400 in 1987.

M4 for $400 in 1987.

M4 for $400 in 1987.

Alex - you got THREE of 'em for that price?

Michael Axel:

"Can I throw in my only rangefinder bargain? Nikon M and 50mm for $25. Even I didn't know what it was worth, but it was a

cool camera. A couple years later I was offered $2500 for it. I said "What?" "

 

That reminds me that I bought a Nikon SP with 2 50mm lenses at an antique store for $65. I knew it was worth more than

that but when I got home and looked it up on the internet I nearly fainted.

 

Chad

Here's a sad story. I bought a Voightlander Vitessa at a garage sale for five dollars. I then got out my set of small screwdrivers and

took it completely apart just to see what was inside. A few weeks later I saw the identical camera for sale in a camera store for

$350.00! Or...a Contax T in nice condition with case and flash for $10.00 from the local Goodwill. Was offered a hundred bucks for

it but turned it down. A few years later when I pulled it out to use it for a trade-in, the titanium body had bubbled and started to flake

off - worthless.

M3 double stroke with 35mm f3.5 summaron, 50mm colapsible summicron, 90mm colapsible elmar and 135mm f.4.5

hektor, mr exposure meter, leather case. all for about 450.00 then this person asks me if i know who would like to buy a

friend"s M3 with leather case and 5mm f.5 summarit. i did, for about 400.00.

Got a new 35-70/4.0 Elmar-r + Leica UV (w/o box) for $400 in 2007. The owner ordered the lens, went on a travel, and lost all his gear. He decided to sell the last Leica gear he had after he came back.