Leica M9 Price

[cameron_leavitt]

<p>Just recently i found out about the Leica M9, and was so excited about it, i was sure i was going to buy one. I thought it what range from about 400 to 600 dollars, but i never expected 7,000. I just want to know why it is so expensive and if there will ever be a chance for me to get one around 400 to 600 dollars.<br>

Thanks</p>

[vahe_sahakian]

<p>It will probably come down to that if you can wait a while.</p>

<p>Vahe</p>

[jean_yves_mead]

<blockquote>

I just want to know why it is so expensive

</blockquote>

<p>Pick one or more of:

<ul>

<li>It's a Leica.</li>

<li>It's a digital rangefinder.</li>

<li>It's a full-frame digital rangefinder.</li>

<li>It's a Leica.</li>

<li>It's the only full-frame digital rangefinder out there, and it takes Leica screw- and M-mount

glass.</li>

<li>Demand seems to outstrip supply by a fair margin.</li>

<li>It's a Leica.</li>

<li>Enough people with $7K think it's worth $7K.</li>

<li>It's a Leica.</li>

</ul>

</p>

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<blockquote>

if there will ever be a chance for me to get one around 400 to 600 dollars

</blockquote>

<p>Depends on whether or not a scammer gets hold of your e-mail address.

<br>

 

More seriously, by the time it hits $400 (if ever), you wouldn't even look twice at it.

</p>

[john_tran14]

<blockquote>

<p>why it is so expensive</p>

</blockquote>

<p>Wrong question. That price is not expensive at all</p>

[daniel_mitschke]

Even the film leicas with almost no electronics are about a few thousand dollars.

[vahe_sahakian]

<p>Actually it is not all that expensive if compared to the top of the line pro Nikon/Canon DSLR’s, in fact I am surprised at the price considering the fact that it is hand made machine using German labor.</p>

<p>Vahe</p>

[roland_dobbins]

<p>Actually, I hope Leica double the price in order to keep their cameras firmly out of the reach of the trolls who post threads like this.</p>

[rossb]

<p> You just have to pick out a different camera. The Leica M9 will never be $600.00 unless it was run over by a truck first. However it is just an electronic camera and you could do well with another brand. I think for about $600.00 you might want to check out the Olympus Pen EP-1 with 14-42 zoom lens. It's not a rangefinder but I think would most likely be a fine little camera for the money.</p>

[pensacolaphoto]

<p>The M8 can be bought in used condition for $2500.<br>

The M9 costs much more money.</p>

[leicaglow]

<p>When I bought my first Leica ca. 1980, the Leica rep told me, "The quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten." That was an M4-2, winder, and an f/1 Noctilux. Actually, he was right.</p>

[oistrakh]

<p>Geez, what a troll. So a digital Leica should cost as much as an entry-level DSLR from Canon or Nikon? Really.</p>

[iangillett]

<p>Dear Cameron,</p>

<p>There would be a 'chance' of you buying a Leica M9 for 400 to 600 dollars but it would depend on whether the lottery tickets you bought for that amount of money actually contained a winning number!<br>

Do you feel lucky?....well do you?<br>

Yours<br>

Ian</p>

[tom_higgins3]

<p>Troll</p>

[richard_francisco]

<p>For $400, you can probably buy the base plate. </p>

[knut_schwinzer]

<p>Julia Margaret Cameron or Helen Levitt? Who the heck are you?<br>

BTW, very, very smart to give yourself a female appearance!<br>

Ol' gentlemen never come short giving advice to the most stupid young ladies' inquiries!</p>

[ray .]

Knut,

Cameron is a name given to males also.

[Gus Lazzari]

<blockquote>

<p>Cameron stated: "I thought it what range" </p>

</blockquote>

<p>Com'on guys, we should allow low IQ people to dream...</p>

[knut_schwinzer]

<p>Thanks Ray, didn't know that.</p>

[blakley]

Given that the camera is still backordered everywhere and the price has not been raised to adjust for the fact that demand has exceeded supply for more than a year, an economist would ask "why is the M9 so cheap?"

[Dave Luttmann]

<p>The real question is, "Why are trolls so plentiful?"</p>

[Richard Williams]

<p>'I just want to know why it is so expensive and if there will ever be a chance for me to get one around 400 to 600 dollars.'</p>

<p>Give it a couple of decades. The Nikon D1 has lost about 95% of its value over the last 10 years. The M9 won't depreciate quite so quickly, but it's not going to be valued very highly by the time its batteries and compatible media cards are hard to find, and contemporary entry level cameras are fitted with sensors that can shoot by starlight and out-resolve a Summicron. You can already pick up an M8 for not much more than half its peak retail price. Old electronic Leicas like the R4 from the 80s are now worth less than LTM cameras made half a century earlier.</p>