axiom
Non-Registered User
I predict in about 100 years, all our Solms stamped/engraved Leica's will fetch collector premiums.
http://leicarumors.com/2012/04/26/g...leica-camera-ag-headquarters-in-wetzlar.aspx/
http://leicarumors.com/2012/04/26/g...leica-camera-ag-headquarters-in-wetzlar.aspx/
venchka
Mentor
But will an engraved brass Wetzler M5 be worth anything? Grinning.
Wayne
Wayne
BobYIL
Well-known
Holy Macaroni! Solms heh? What about our Midland or Wetzlar stamped/engraved ones? Junk?!?!
Steve M.
Mentor
What's the market going to be for my Pet Rock? Oh, I'll be dead then. Never mind.
srtiwari
Daktari
I think you are absolutely right. I would just prefer not to have to wait quite that long to collect on it.
BobYIL
Well-known
The current plant in Solms is a barracks-like contruction... After seeing the pictures of the new buildings something is telling me that the $7000 cameras can be part of history soon.. ($$$$$!!!)
Richard G
Mentor
More angels fit on an M9 top plate than on an anniversary M4-P top plate (Canada). So I've got that going for me.
Roger Hicks
Mentor
Will I care in 100 years?
Cheers,
R.
Cheers,
R.
kshapero
South Florida Man
I will be old by then.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
So what? ... a group of loonys are going to bury them all so they can be dug up in the future? Someone will be busy CLA'ing that lot ... if they can remember where they buried them!
folville
Member
I hope they build the factory faster than they build lenses.
zvos1
Well-known
Is lady in red representing a RED DOT?
So what? ... a group of loonys are going to bury them all so they can be dug up in the future? Someone will be busy CLA'ing that lot ... if they can remember where they buried them!
Contarama
Well-known
They are all already collectibles aren't they?
jarski
Mentor
computer generated pictures of new buildings look pretty bad to me. strait from -90's. hope they look better in real life.
MikeL
Go Fish
Darn, I knew I shouldn't have traded mine in to the dealer for the Kodak Easyshare Max Z990.
semilog
curmudgeonly optimist
What's with the shovels made in England?
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
One of those shovels appears to be a *****!
(edit) ... I said $pade damn you ... cursed forum censorship software!
sabrewolf
Member
Sure, they will be collecting dust
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
Not as much as a Nikon rangefinder that says "Made in Occupied Japan". You know those Nikons are far better than Leicas, even when it comes to being collectible.
sevo
Fokutorendaburando
However, in about 200 years they will be less collectable and valuable than any point and shoot compact - museums will doubtlessly need a display piece of the latter, and while a fair number of Leicas will have survived, through being in collection storage for centuries, almost every point-and-shoot that did not vanish in the recycling grinder will have succumbed to plastics rot...